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- Red Steagall: New and Selected Poems
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: TCU Press
- Series: TCU Texas Poet Laureate Series
summary
The State of Texas has honored Texas Poets Laureate for seventy-three years, but much of their work has gone unpublished and unrecognized. In a significant step toward recognizing the achievements of the Texas Poets Laureate, TCU Press will publish a series of the work of the Poets Laureate, with a volume dedicated to each poet. The series begins with the 2005 and 2006 Texas Poets Laureate, Alan Birkelbach and Red Steagall, and will continue through the next five appointments. These beautiful volumes collect the finest work of each individual poet. While a single volume may stand alone as a valuable selection of a poet’s work, the series as a whole will draw their different voices together into a singular poetic expression of Texas.
Red Steagall has made his career in bringing the cowboy way of life into the public eye through many different media, and his poetry has been an important part of this effort. Here, it speaks as poetry in its own right. His poems, however, never lack a musical, songlike quality; his lilting rhythms carry the reader through the journey that each poem represents. Steagall’s poems chart the changing of the land and the passing of generations, but they rest on the solid ground of a steady faith.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-3
- A Dusty Cotton Field
- pp. 9-10
- McCorkle and the Wire
- pp. 13-15
- Born to This Land
- pp. 16-17
- The Real America
- pp. 18-19
- Deacon and the Dun
- pp. 20-21
- The Last Buffalo
- pp. 22-23
- Climbin’ Out the Other Side
- pp. 24-26
- My Best Friend
- p. 27
- The Fence That Me and Shorty Built
- pp. 28-31
- Bright Comanche Moon
- pp. 32-34
- The Weather
- pp. 35-36
- Ride for the Brand
- pp. 37-39
- The Song of the West
- pp. 40-41
- The Picture
- pp. 42-43
- The Maverick Way
- pp. 44-45
- The Shank of the Evenin’
- pp. 46-47
- The Bell on Old Blue
- p. 51
- The Visalia
- pp. 55-57
- The Blue Roan and the Kid
- pp. 61-63
- When Joseph Was Chief
- pp. 64-65
- To An Old Friend
- pp. 66-68
- Sourdough, Beefsteak, and Beans
- pp. 70-72
- The Wagon Tongue
- pp. 77-78
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 80-82
Additional Information
ISBN
9780875654607
Related ISBN(s)
9780875653419
MARC Record
OCLC
794701380
Pages
96
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No