{"id":879,"date":"2018-12-31T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2018-12-31T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:29:08","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

3.26.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Texas Reads: Poet laureate featured in new collection<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Some books you read and enjoy, then move on to the next one.<\/span> Others you might like to savor for a while. And then there are a few that you cherish and go back to time and again. Walt McDonald: Selected Poems<\/span> (TCU Press, $18.95 hardcover) is one that I will cherish. The tenth book in the TCU Texas Poet Laureate Series honors the 2001 Texas Poet Laureate, 2002 A.C. Greene Award winner, former Air Force pilot and longtime Texas Tech professor, now retired.<\/p>\n

Introducing the collection, guest editor and 2010 Texas poet laureate karla k. morton<\/span> notes that McDonald has had more than 2,300 poems published in journals and 20 poetry collections.<\/p>\n

\u201cMcDonald\u2019s poems,\u201d she writes, \u201cseem to rise up from the soil and all the earthly waters, ripe with wisdom, connecting one generation to the next: the sweet meat of a fictional history handed down to the rest of the world with the splendor of the grand storytellers of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

The eighty poems selected for this slim volume speak to the range of McDonald\u2019s subjects and the rhythm of his lyrics. He writes about war and family and love, about sandstorms and ranching and fishing, about ordinary folks, old age and death.<\/p>\n

I have to admit that most collections of poetry leave me saying \u201chuh?\u201d more often than \u201cwow!\u201d Not this one. One minute I\u2019m laughing out loud reading \u201cBaptizing the Dog at Nine\u201d and \u201cAunt Linda and the Pink Bikini.\u201d Then I\u2019m savoring his sweet tributes to his wife, Carol, \u201cNights on the Porch Swing\u201d and \u201cRock Softly in My Arms.\u201d And then I\u2019m wiping away tears reading \u201cBargaining with God,\u201d a poem inspired by his granddaughter, who died in 2004.<\/p>\n

An excerpt from that one: \u201cI beg Take me \/ instead of my darlings. Take the ranch \/ and bank account, the mountain cabin, \/ but save our granddaughter now. \/ Let me be Job in rags, Jeremiah \/ in tears, but heal this little child now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Limited edition:<\/span> Four-O Publishing has teamed up with the Tom Lea Institute to produce a limited edition fine printing of \u201cThe Notebook of Nancy Lea 1932\u20131936.\u201d Nancy Lea<\/span>, an aspiring young writer and artist, died in 1936 at age twenty-nine. Her grieving husband \u2014 artist Tom Lea<\/span> \u2014 and noted book designer Carl Hertzog<\/span> published her notebook and distributed the tweny-five or so copies to friends as a lasting memorial to her.<\/p>\n

The new limited edition includes the notebook as first published plus a foreword by Houston businessman and collector J. P. Bryan;<\/span> an introduction by Jamie Christy,<\/span> director of the Bryan Museum in Galveston; an afterword by Adair Margo,<\/span> founder and president of the Tom Lea Institute in El Paso; and a 24-page color plate section of artwork, photographs and a reproduction of the first page from her hand-written notebook. The 250 numbered copies are $100 apiece and may be purchased by contacting Randy Armstrong at rarmstrg@hsutx.edu<\/span><\/a><\/span> or 325-670-1436.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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