Great Lonely Places of the Texas Plains
Author | : Walter McDonald |
Publisher | : Texas Tech University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN-10 | : 0896725065 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780896725065 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Clarity, focus, and startling detail are the stuff of lasting images--in poetry or photography. Who better, then, to illuminate what would elude us than a native state photographer and native state poet laureate? Selected from hundreds of photographs and poems, these pairs show surprising harmony of vision and insights about the vast, wide plains, their dramatic colors, and the calm, vigorous people who thrive beneath their sprawling skies, accepting the risks and splendor of it all. Together and on their own, these photos and poems astonish and delight, stagger and jostle, each resonating with texture and joy.