Texas Poets in Concert: A Quartet

by R. S. Gwynn, Jan Epton Seale, Naomi Shihab Nye, William Virgil Davis

Overview

Four diverse Texas poets are presented in the anthology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780929398105
Publisher:	University of North Texas Press
Publication date:	06/01/2000
Series:	Texas Poets Series , #2
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

R. S. Gwynn is the author of the collection The Drive-In. He is Associate Professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.



Jan Epton Seale is the author of two poetry volumes: Bonds and Sharing the House. She also writes plays, essays, and short stories. She lives in McAllen, Texas.



Naomi Shihab Nye is the author of Different Ways to Pray, Hugging the Jukebox, and Yellow Glove. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.



William Virgil Davis won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1980. He is writer-in-residence at Baylor University, Waco, Texas.

Table of Contents

	Body Bags
	Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins	7
	Yuppiegrams	9
	Two Songs: From Notes & Queries: An Academic Opere	10
	Approaching a Significant Birthday, He Peruses The Norton Anthology of Poetry	14
	A Letter From Biltmore	15
	The Slave Ship: A Ballad	17
	Sir Thomas More	23
	The Dream Again	24
	Randolph Field, 1938	26
	West Palm	28
	Body Bags	31
	Believing is Seeing
	The Specified Donor	37
	Digging for the Truth	39
	Believing Is Seeing	41
	Pilgrim! Pilgrim! Why Do You Tarry?	43
	One More for Sylvia	45
	Nape	46
	Flying Home	47
	Bandelier	48
	Helping History on Bachelor Hill	51
	On the Way to Cinnamon Pass	52
	Rain Dance	54
	Coming Down Through Oklahoma	56
	Kluane Lake	58
	Doing the Valdez Dream	60
	Songs of Mesa Verde	62
	In Praise of Woman Chief	65
	Trailride	68
	Dear Thunder	69
	For Sheep in Transhumance	71
	What the Bristlecones Said	73
	Twenty Other Worlds
	The Sail Made of Rags	79
	Intensive Care	80
	Even at War	82
	How Palestinians Keep Warm	83
	What Brings Us Out	84
	Through the Kitchen Window, Chiapas	86
	Saved	87
	California Time, Texas Time	88
	Beyond This World There Are Twenty Other Worlds	89
	Sleep's Little House	91
	Password	92
	Morning Paper, Society Page	94
	The Great Photographer Has His Picture Taken	95
	Swimmer, Blessed Sea	97
	The Edge of a Country	99
	The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong	101
	Audience	103
	Olive Jar	104
	Debris	105
	Winter Light
	Fragments	109
	Legacy	110
	Snow	111
	Winter Light	112
	Winter Solstice	113
	Pathetique	114
	The Watchers	115
	Landscape	116
	Landscape in Early Winter	117
	Windows	118
	October: With Rain	119
	Winter Roses	120
	Vigil at Heiligenkreuz	121
	"Breton Village in the Snow"	122
	Winter Stars	123
	The Polar Bear	124
	A Man and His Hat	125
	An Evening in Advent	126
	The Light	127
	Winter Walk	128