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Overview"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 the work of 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,"" ""Mi Tia Sofia,"" 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, among others, ""litany: blood in the soil/texas (an excerpt),"" by Sharon Bridforth, and ""Our Texas Economy,"" by Chuck Taylor." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Billy Bob HillPublisher: Texas Christian University Press Imprint: Texas Christian University Press Dimensions: Width: 18.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 26.20cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780875653532ISBN 10: 0875653537 Pages: 226 Publication Date: 30 October 2007 Audience: Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Secondary Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBill Hill is a graduate of Southern Methodist University with an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. Hill has taught at several area colleges and universities and is responsible for several excellent short fiction anthologies and a number of other books by Texas writers. In 2002 he published Texas in Poetry 2 with TCU Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |