The Digs in Escondido Canyon (Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry) [Hardcover]

Walter McDonald (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1991 | Series: Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry

"The poems ... are set in the hardscrabble of West Texas and derive a great deal of their power from the land itself. The rest of their deep power comes from McDonald: his clear, but never cold, eye; his sure sense of phrase and rhythm; his love of a land that requires much from those who would love it. Nobody has ever written better poetry about Texas than Walt McDonald." — Andrew Hudgins The Digs in Escondido Canyon is Walt McDonald's twelfth book of poems. He has published sixteen other collections of poetry and fiction, including Blessings the Body Gave (Ohio State University Press, 1998), Counting Survivors (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), Night Landings (Harper & Row, 1989), After the Noise of Saigon (University of Massachusetts Press, 1988), and The Flying Dutchman (Ohio State University Press, 1987). Two other books won Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame: All That Matters: The Texas Plains in Photographs and Poems (Texas Tech University Press), and Rafting the Brazos (University of North Texas Press). He has received two NEA fellowships and four awards from the Texas Institute of Letters. Walt was an Air Force pilot and is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor and Poet in Residence at Texas Tech University. Natives of Texas, he and his wife Carol live in Lubbock: "No matter where we've been, it's home." In 1989, poet and novelist James Dickey wrote about Walt's flying poems, "Walter McDonald is a truly human voice speaking from the air. These are remarkable poems, written from the vision of a man sustained by machinery in terror and exhilaration above the planet. The experience of McDonald's words is as unique as flight itself."

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The Barn On The Farm We're Buying
Boys And The Laws Of Mercy
The Call Of All Things Common
Caught In A Squall Near Pecos
Combinations
Digging On Hardscrabble
The Digs In Escondido Canyon (1)
East Of Eden (2)
Eighteen
Father's Straight Razor
Feeding The Winter Cattle
The Goats Of Summer
Growing Up Near Escondido Canyon
Hauling On Hardscrabble
Hawks In A Bitter Blizzard
Home On The Range
Hunting The Pasture
The Last Five Acres Of Timber
Leaving The Middle Years
Locket, Where The Water Quit
Mercy And The Brazos River
On All Roads Going And Coming
One Of Our Missiles Is Missing
The Pee Wee Coach
Praying For More Than Thunder
Reasons For Taking Risks
Stars And The Laws Of Motion
Starting A Pasture
Sweet Nothings
Taking Each Deep Breath
Two Family Men In Late Summer
Weeds Barn Owls, All Nibbling Goats
When It Thunders
The Winter Before The War (1)
With My Father In Winter
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Hardcover: 60 pages
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press; First Edition edition (January 15, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896722589
• ISBN-13: 978-0896722583
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,492,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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