| Description |
1 online resource (66 pages) |
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Our Mother Who Taught Tumbling -- Barbed Wire before Pearl Harbor -- Our Mother Who Taught Tumbling -- My Brother's Photos before Okinawa -- Uncle Howell and the Magic of Moonlight -- Oranges for My Sister When She Was Nine -- Woodworker's Saturday Nights -- Coat Collars Up like Thugs -- Gehenna and the County's Tires -- December after World War II -- Aunt Emma and the Spoils of War -- Red Sun in the West -- Rattling Past Ninety -- Jukebox Nights in Georgia -- Practice during the Cuban Missile Crisis -- One Summer before Saigon -- Dawn Outside Saigon -- Too Far from Town to Play Baseball -- Sausage in the Mess Hall -- Anniversary Waltz -- War Never Stops Even When All Vets Are Dead -- No Wonder My Wife Is Tough -- Wishing for Easter All Year Long -- Dogs Romping until Dawn -- Harvest -- Mobeetee, Where Faith and Neighbors Failed -- How Aunt Martha Handled Scandal -- How Much Time We're Promised -- Fathers and Sons -- October Compost -- Uncles on Sunday Battlegrounds -- Wishing for Easter All Year Long -- Hammering Ice to Slush -- Hammering Ice to Slush -- Hoping to Break the Chain -- Grandmother's House at Kitty Hawk -- Dusk at Kill Devil Hills -- Bulldozing the Outer Banks -- All Salty Summer -- Parties in a Heated Hall -- A Little Night Music -- Taking the Keys from Mother -- In Shallows of the Brazos -- At the Bald Men's Convention -- Turning Sixty-Five on Hardscrabble -- When the Days Dwindle Down -- Some Boys Are Born to Wander -- Opening the Cabin in March -- Ranching at Glacier -- In Arnold Schwend's Saloon |
| Summary |
A West Texas starscape, stunning by any measure, is emblematic of Walt McDonald's plains. A lifelong celebration culminates in this, his best-and perhaps last-collection of new poems. At seventy, the poet affirms, we live by the mystery of grace even as we watch familiar stars blink out at dawn. For he believes "God knows we are dust / and counts our steps." In "Leaving the Middle Years," he writes, "At our age, / every day is grace and every breath / a blessing. Life is grass, stunningly brief / but abundant in so many ways." Walt writes about heroes-a mother who taught tumbling; family and friends gone to war; the brave at home who heal or console; others who rescue from war zones as many children as they can. Heroes, too, are those whose fidelity and joy find faces in these poems |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
POETRY -- American -- General.
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American Literature.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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| SUBJECT |
Texas -- Poetry
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Texas
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004009453 |
| ISBN |
142376269X |
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9781423762690 |
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1281093394 |
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9781281093394 |
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6611093397 |
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9786611093396 |
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