The waltz he was born for : an introduction to the writing of Walt McDonald / edited by Naice Whittington and Andrew Hudgins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hudgins, Andrew.

Whittington, Janice.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McDonald, Walter--Criticism and interpretation.

McDonald, Walter.

Criticism and interpretation.

Texas--In literature.

Texas.

Physical Description:

vi, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Texas Poet Laureate Walt McDonald has published more than eighteen volumes of poetry. A poet of the landscape, of war and flying, of people just working hard, McDonald is master of the vital image and sound. And his work invites others to define the elements that delight and fascinate. Each contributor herein has made his own trek to McDonald's harsh landscapes of arroyos and hardscrabble, his skies filled with joy and terrors, those night sweats of pilots. Here, in the territory Walt McDonald has claimed, these writers have found gold.

Contents:

Transcending hardscrabble : the evolving vision of Walt McDonald / Andrew Hudgins

All his hands can do : the poetry of Walt McDonald / Henry Taylor

Domestic tranquility and national defense : the personal history of Walt McDonald / Jerry Bradley

Reclaiming the homefront : Walt McDonald's peacekeeping soldiers / Barbara Rodman

McDonald's a band of brothers : a plea for a deeper understanding / Clay Reynolds

Walt McDonald's beautiful wasteland / Michael Hobbs

Unignored plunder : the Texas poems of Walt McDonald / Dave Oliphant

An uneasy truce : wildness and domesticity in the poems of Walt McDonald / April Lindner

Walt McDonald, poet of the Southwest / Nick Norwood

Poetry to trespass for / Dan Flores

Walt McDonald's poetry : images of man's acceptance of his place in time / Laverne Popelka

Angel and mirage : concerns of imagination in Walt McDonald and Wallace Stevens / William Wenthe

How to spin rightly : Walt McDonald's vision of the artist / Janice Whittington

Dark pearls : an introduction to Walter McDonald's poetic journey of faith / Darryl Tippens

Intimations of higher matters : anagogical closure in Walter McDonald's Burning the fence / William Jolliff

Perseverance in Walter McDonald's poetry / Chris Willerton

Forms of incarnation in the recent poetry of Walter McDonald / Helen Maxson

An interview with Walt McDonald, april 2000 / Phyllis Bridges.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [232]-245) and index.

ISBN:

0896724875

OCLC:

48966946