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Texas Poet Laureate Walt McDonald has published more than eighteen volumes of award-winning 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 he is a poet whose work invites writers such as these gathered here to find and define the elements that delight and fascinate. Each contributor to this volume has followed his own trek of discovery in McDonalds harsh landscapes of arroyos and hardscrabble, in his skies filled with joy and terrors, in those night sweats of pilots. Here, in the territory Walt McDonald has claimed, these writers have found gold. Their essays analyze McDonalds writings about war and the veterans return to civilian life, the regional grounding of his far-reaching verities, and the writer himself. Some discuss his aesthetic strategies; others examine McDonald in relation to other writers. Still others explore the religious imagery, thought, and implications of McDonalds poetry. One looks at the poet within the context of his fiction, ""A Band of Brothers"", McDonalds elegiac and only collection of short stories. Concluding the study is an interview with McDonald. '[His] is the voice of Texas, a landscape that has inspired countless pages of fine prose, but had lacked its defining poet before McDonald, with what seems in retrospect like astonishing ease, filled the role' - From Andrew Hudgins' introduction. 'What McDonald does - has always done - is to offer a modest proposal for stemming what he eloquently depicts as an unconscionable moment in life. He knows that the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, so he pleads for a sort of cosmic compassion, even if the compassion is unearned and the cosmos fundamentally merciless' - Jerry Bradley.
Contents
All His Hands Can Do: The Poetry of Walt McDonald by Henry Taylor Domestic Tranquility and Natural Defense: The Personal History of Walt McDonald by Jerry Bradley Reclaiming the Homefront: Walt McDonald's Peacekeeping Soldiers by Barbara Rodman McDonald's A Band of Brothers: A Plea for a Deeper Understanding by Clay Reynolds Walt McDonald's Beautiful Wasteland by Michael Hobbs Unignored Plunder: The Texas Poems of Walt McDonald by Dave Oliphant An Uneasy Truce: Wilderness and Domesticity in the Poems of Walt McDonald by April Lindner Walt McDonald, Poet of the Southwest by Nick Norwood Poetry to Trespass For by Dan Flores Walt McDonald's Poetry: Images of Man's Acceptance of His Place in Time by La Verne Popelka Angel and Mirage: Concerns of Imagination in Walt McDonald and Wallace Stevens by William Wenthe How to Spin Rightly: Walt McDonald's Vision of the Artist by Janice Whittington ""Dark Pearls"": An Introduction to Walter McDonald's Poetic Journey of Faith by Darryl Tippens Intimations of Higher Matters: Anagogical Closure in Walter McDonald's Burning the Fence by William Jolliff Perseverance in Walt McDonald's Poetry by Chris Willerton Forms of Incarnation in the Recent Poetry of Walter McDonald by Helen Maxson An Interview with Walt McDonald, April 2000 by Phyllis Bridges
