Night Landings: Poems

McDonald, Walter

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Harpercollins

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Sand Castles: Step-by-Step

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Wierenga, Lucinda

Crafts & Hobbies

Meadowbrook Pr

In poems about flying, about riding herd and backpacking, about ageing and raising children in a world of risk, Walter McDonald here celebrates friends missing in action in Vietnam and friends who survived - pilots and war buddies, neighbours and family.

Counting Survivors (Pitt Poetry Series)

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

University of Pittsburgh Press

Walt McDonald was named Texas State Poet Laureate in 2001. This is just one accolade in his distinguished writing career. He established the Creative Writing program at Texas Tech University, serving as poetry editor there from 1975 to 1995, and retired May 2002 as Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence. He was a member of the literature advisory panel for the Texas Commission on the Arts from 1986 to 1988. He won four Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and six awards from the Texas Institute of Letters (including the Lon Tinkle Lifetime Achievement Award). McDonald also received the 2004 Texas Book Festival Bookend Award for a lifetime of contributions to Texas literature. TCU Press honors his amazing career in this tenth book of the TCU Press Texas Poet Laureate Series. A master of the story and the subtle rhythm of the line, this prolific poet has had more than 2,300 poems published in journals and his twenty-two collections. From these collections, this book is born. These poems move readers on an elemental level—full of the hardscrabble of everyday life, yet infused with pure faith, reminding the reader that our lot is not easy in this world, but it is nothing less than glorious.

Walt McDonald: Selected Poems (TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series)

TCU Press

Caliban in Blue and Other Poems

Caliban in Blue is a collection of poems by Walter McDonald. In these poems, McDonald incorporates various aspects of his life such as family, characters from works of literature, and memories of a war he went to and the planes he flew."Walter McDonald's poems are not pounded out on the typewriter, but beaten out of life. They taste and breathe and cry. They had to be written. They must be read." —Paul Engle "There's a deep pleasure in reading a book of poems that are simply and consistently interesting. McDonald's poems are that, except that 'simply' may not be the right word. They move with complex and contrary forces. And they are informed by experience and perspective rare in a first book." —Miller WilliamsWalter McDonald lives in Lubbock, Texas, with his wife. Once an Air Force pilot and instructor at the Air Force Academy, until retirement he taught creative writing and American literature at Texas Tech University. In addition to his poetry, he has published fiction and essays and is co-editor of A 'Catch-22' Casebook. A Ph.D. graduate of The University of Iowa, he is past president of the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers.

Texas Tech University Press

Caliban in Blue is a collection of poems by Walter McDonald. In these poems, McDonald incorporates various aspects of his life such as family, characters from works of literature, and memories of a war he went to and the planes he flew."Walter McDonald's poems are not pounded out on the typewriter, but beaten out of life. They taste and breathe and cry. They had to be written. They must be read." —Paul Engle "There's a deep pleasure in reading a book of poems that are simply and consistently interesting. McDonald's poems are that, except that 'simply' may not be the right word. They move with complex and contrary forces. And they are informed by experience and perspective rare in a first book." —Miller WilliamsWalter McDonald lives in Lubbock, Texas, with his wife. Once an Air Force pilot and instructor at the Air Force Academy, he most recently taught creative writing and American literature at Texas Tech University. In addition to his poetry, he has published fiction and essays and is co-editor of A 'Catch-22' Casebook. A Ph.D. graduate of The University of Iowa, he is past president of the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers.

Walt McDonald's A Band of Brothers sheds light on the Vietnam war through the eyes of a pilot in painstaking detail. Walter McDonald's collection [is] one of the most moving and insightful accounts of that "dirty little war" I have seen. This is a view of hell from an intelligent, sensitive eye, a tour of unimaginable horror conducted by one who has not only seen it but who has also felt it…. —Clay Reynolds

A Band of Brothers: Stories from Vietnam

United States

"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 Universi

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

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Night Landings: Poems

Night Landings: Poems

Sand Castles: Step-by-Step

Counting Survivors (Pitt Poetry Series)

Counting Survivors (Pitt Poetry Series)

Walt McDonald: Selected Poems (TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series)

Caliban in Blue and Other Poems

Caliban in Blue and Other Poems

A Band of Brothers: Stories from Vietnam

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