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BLESSINGS BODY GAVE (OSU JOURNAL AWARD POETRY) [Paperback]

WALT MCDONALD (Author)
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1945
Adoption
After The Fires We Once Called Vietnam
After The Lost War
Again This Winter
All We Do Is Already History
Alone In The Tundra
Anniversary: One Fine Day
Aunt Linda And The Pink Bikini
Baptizing The Dog At Nine
Before Children
Blessings The Body Gave
A Cabin, Even A Cave
Cars Flash By On The Highway
Cataracts
Catching My Grandson
Crossing The Road
East Of Eden (3)
Fathers And Sons (1)
The First Months Home
Fishing With Uncle Walter In World War Ii
For Donavon, Missing In Action
For God In My Sorrows
The Fox All Winter Long
Gardens Of Sand And Cactus
Grandfather's Pocket Watch
Halfway Between The Gulf And Mountains
How It's Done
In Dickey Country
In Gusty Winds That Wild
Jogging With Oscar
Learning How In The Southwest
Leaving The Scene
Losing It Again In Bozeman
Marriage Is A Bungee Jump
The Moves A Body Makes
My Cousin And The V.a. Nurse
My Father On His Shield
Old Pets
One Summer Before Saigon
Praying For Rain On The Plains
River Of The Arms Of God
Rocket Attack (1)
Scenes From War: The Night I Left The Air Force
Sleeping With The Enemy
Song For One-armed Cowboys
Spitfire
Stones Grandfathers Carved
Sympathy
That Child Abandoned On The Porch
To Have And To Hold
The Track At Saigon
Traveling In Packs
Twins And Oral History
Uncle Bill And Guns
Uncle Douglas And The Whirring Blades
Uncle Earl's Wind River Ranch
Voices On Jukebox Wax
The Waltz We Were Born For
The War In Bosnia
Weeding The Strawberry Garden
What Old Pilots Say
Whatever It Takes (2)
When The Children Have Gone
Where The Fence Goes
While Buffalo Grass Grows Loud If We Listen
Wild Ducks Floating By
The Winter They Bombed Pearl Harbor
With Mercy For All
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Ohio State University Press; 1 edition (September 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0814250041
  • ISBN-13: 978-0814250044
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,478,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Intense Consideration, December 13, 1999
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Mike Hickerson (Louisville, KY, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: BLESSINGS BODY GAVE (OSU JOURNAL AWARD POETRY) (Paperback)
Walt McDonald uses vowels as well as almost any contemporary poet I've read. His work offers insight on his own life, often concentrating on the major wars of our time: his childhood during WWII, his service in Vietnam, his reactions to the Persian Gulf as both a concerned parent and distant observer. His writing opens up his own spirit to the reader in a way I admire, and he "keeps his head on," so to speak, demonstrating that he has spent intense effort both thinking about his experiences and transforming them into poetry. Highly recommended.
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0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars IT'S NOT POETRY, March 19, 2009
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Jules36 (Chicago, IL, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: BLESSINGS BODY GAVE (OSU JOURNAL AWARD POETRY) (Paperback)
This, like so much other blather we are asked to believe is poetry, is simply a collection of uninteresting stories broken up into what is supposed to resemble a poem -- akin to that kook who wraps city blocks in pink plastic, calls it art and charges the city $1 million, or the "painter" who throws a few buskets of latex in the general direction of a canvas and calls it art, or the "visionary" who piles garbage on the floor of a museum and calls it "art."

How is it that poets can throw a bunch of words in the general direction of a page, telling us "they come from my soul" or "give meaning to the angst I have felt since I was 5 days old" and have half the literary world fawning over them as if they were the Dead Sea scrolls...but an imaginiative fiction author's story is panned, citing lack of "character development" and "significant plot progress" and other such condemnation?
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