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A thousand miles of stars /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lubbock, Tex. :
Texas Tech University Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.