{"id":54,"date":"2018-12-31T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2018-12-31T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:34:05","slug":"lone-star-book-reviewsby-michelle-newby-nbcccontributing-editor-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Book ReviewsBy Michelle Newby, NBCCContributing Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lone Star Book Reviews
of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Carl Jung explored the feminine and the masculine in a description of the energy we all manifest. Jungian psychologist James Hillman decreed that integration of these opposites is the goal of human development. But we live in a world that has repressed, confined, and submerged the female voice.<\/span>\u00a0 \u2014Kathleen Hudson<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span>HER TEXAS<\/span><\/a><\/span> collects the work of a who\u2019s who of creative Texas women<\/span> into a beautiful anthology of written and visual art. Each editor provides an introduction with her own distinctive voice that collectively function as a prelude to the work contained therein, microcosms of the macro-macrocosm of Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreative Nonfiction\u201d appropriately begins with the inspiration for this project and grande dame of Texas literary criticism, the late Lou Halsell Rodenberger.<\/span> Donna M. Johnson\u2019s<\/span> \u201cMockingbird Lane\u201d reminds us that there are many ways to be absent; \u201cThe Man at the End of the Hall\u201d is Guida Jackson\u2019s<\/span> hymn to the plains and the \u201c…whining, twanging, nerve-jangling never-ending wind\u201d; Christine Warren\u2019s<\/span> \u201cLet Her Roll\u201d is a paean to the Guadalupe River in a time when outlaw country \u201csounded the way Texas felt.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cSong\u201d section opens with Kathleen Hudson\u2019s<\/span> essay \u201cThe Tapestry Is Rich: Women\u2019s Voices in Texas Music.\u201d It includes Tish Hinojosa\u2019s<\/span> American-dreaming \u201cJoaquin\u201d and four songs from the bracingly, refreshingly authentic Amanda Pearcy.<\/span> The section includes notes on inspiration and process.<\/p>\n

The \u201cPoetry\u201d section features the triumvirate of San Antonio: Rosemary Catacalos\u2019s<\/span> melancholy betwixt and between, Sandra Cisneros\u2019s<\/span> I-will-survive women and Carmen Tafolla\u2019s<\/span> nurturers with the \u201csashay sassy as salsa.\u201d It also includes karla k. morton<\/span> capturing the lassitude of \u201cLate August in Texas, Fall is a myth,\u201d Sherry Craven\u2019s<\/span> sexy romps and sensual communion, Naomi Shihab Nye\u2019s<\/span> sacred work, Rebecca Balc\u00e1rcel\u2019s<\/span> girls on the verge, Anne McCrady\u2019s<\/span> pastoral elegies, and Celeste Guzm\u00e1n Mendoza\u2019s<\/span> feasts.<\/p>\n

The \u201cFiction\u201d section showcases a common theme of building bridges and seeking connection. In LaToya Watkins\u2019s<\/span> \u201cOutsiders\u201d two women reach out across the socioeconomic chasm; in Sobia Khan\u2019s<\/span> \u201cThe Fallen\u201d a Pakistani grandmother living in Dallas is faced with cultural and religious challenges; and Rachel Crawford\u2019s<\/span> protagonist in \u201cFirst Names\u201d returns to her childhood home because there are \u201c[g]hosts in the corners of the house I grew up in, ghosts on the road, ghosts walking around the valley\u201d in which she observes, \u201cI never feel lonely here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visual art is interspersed throughout the book: Deanna Newcomb\u2019s<\/span> iconic photographs of the wild beating heart of West Texas; Tammy Cromer-Campbell\u2019s<\/span> devastating photographs of drought in East Texas; Kathy Vargas\u2019s<\/span> haunting hand-tinted prints; Ysabel de la Rosa\u2019s<\/span> quietly ambitious flowers; and Danielle Kilgo\u2019s<\/span> tousle-headed joy in the form of a child.<\/p>\n

When I finished Her Texas<\/span> I wanted to find a porch and a huge pitcher of iced sun tea and talk with these women long into the night. Her Texas<\/span> speaks to the soul of Texans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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