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A Students' Treasury of Texas Poetry

A Students' Treasury of Texas Poetry

Hill, Billy Bob

Hardcover

Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0875653537
ISBN13: 9780875653532
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Published: Oct 5 2007
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.88 Width: 7.25 Depth: 10.33
Language: English
Designed to enhance high school students' appreciation of the rich variety of Texas poetry, A Students' Treasury of Texas Poetry contains poems from the earliest beginnings of Texas, including work by Sam Houston and Mirabeau B. Lamar, to contemporary poets like Naomi Shihab Nye, Larry McMurtry, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Jas. Mardis, and Carmen Tafolla.

Hill groups the poems in categories, setting out the history of Texas from pre-history in poems like Larry D. Thomas' Caddoan Indian Mound or Alan Birkelbach's Coronado Points, to a chronicle of Texas counties in such poems as Haiku: Hands shading my eyes, by Michael Moore, or The Poet Gets Drowsy on the Road, by Frederick Turner. Texas poets examine the variety of family life in poems such as Red Steagall's The Memories in Grandmother's Trunk, or Mi Tía Sofía by Carmen Tafolla, or Growing Up near Escondido Canyon, by Walt McDonald.

Even the weather and Texas' varied creatures are fodder for the poet's speculation, and Hill includes Good-bye Summer by Jas. Mardis, and Summer Begins Outside Dalhart, Texas, by Mary Vanek, as well as Mr. Bloomer's Birds by William D. Barney and A Mockingbird, by Boyce House.

The final chapter features attempts by poets to define the mysterious state that is Texas and includes litany: blood in the soil/texas (an excerpt) by Sharon Bridforth, Our Texas Economy by Chuck Taylor, among others.

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