Bøger af Walt McDonald

The 65 poems in All Occasions are about a boy who later flies as an Air Force pilot, marries a woman so lovely and loving he's stunned, goes home after a war and discovers with friends and family what John Donne meant in one Christmas sermon: "All occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons." The poems celebrate the wonder and need of all occasions--the heartache and longing and joy of being alone, loved, in war, in a cockpit at 40,000, riding the range on a mustang, and in the arms of a family. From "swaggering to the flight line" as a young pilot to feeling alone in the jungles of Saigon, he goes home to work the ranch and survives largely by learning to connect with others--other old vets, family, and strangers. The book opens with a granddaughter humming and nibbling breakfast while her daddy, back from war, cooks more French toast for her. In part 2 of All Occasions, the writer experiences Vietnam and discovers over swift decades how deeply he needs friends, family, and God. Always, even after flying "to Saigon and back," this book is about the risks and joys of marriage and raising children in a dangerous world, where love is our hope and only grace saves. This is Walt McDonald's eighteenth collection of poems, with his best, most affirmative core.

A lifelong celebration culminates in this, his best--and perhaps last--collection of new poems.

A lifetime collection of poems by esteemed Texas literary voice Walt McDonald, as selected by the poet himself.

Walt McDonald was named Texas State Poet Laureate in 2001. This is just one accolade in his distinguished writing career. He established the Creative Writing program at Texas Tech University, serving as poetry editor from 1975 to 1995, and retired 2002 as Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence. TCU Press honours his career in this tenth book of the TCU Press Texas Poet Laureate Series.

Who more than the Southwesterners who've boldly claimed their home under the same tornado skies could have more cause to celebrate the millennium? This title includes poems that connect to the moments in time that the photographs preserve, and evoke stories that focus on the scope of life then and in the century since ranching came to the region.

The poems in this volume celebrate with praise and amazement the wonders and risks of wilderness and family, of friends before and after the war. The boy in these poems grows up during World War II, feisty in spite of losses and the harsh, hardscrabble land where he lives.