Overview
Selected by Jenny Browne,Ā 2017 poet laureate of Texas,Ā these poems draw a picture of one of Americaās vastly sublime yet most audaciously independent corners. In these diverse voices, the state is a lovely and painful contradiction of space and meaning. Texas is a place āwhere blind catfish cruiseā and wild asters grow. Itās a frame of mind where Jenny Boully writes āthe history is unendingā and Mexican American studies professor Christopher Carmona can āfeel the slowness of time.ā Jorge Luis Borges wrote of it as āan endless plain / Where a manās cry dies a lonely death.ā Victoria Chang writes that āthere is so / much sky that even birds / get lost."
Andrea āVocabā Sanderson describes her hometown as a āfiercely loving city tougher on the outside / but smooth as pecan shells,ā and Naomi Shihab Nye reminds us to ābe patient, sure thereās lots of bad around, / but more room for good too, with all this empty.ā Whether it is Joshua Edwards imagining his photographer father or Primo Feliciano MarĆnās declaration āHail Texas, fraught with charms unknown,ā these voices, past and present, give us a glimpse into the poetic soul of the nationās most willful state.
Poets include Robert A. Ayres, Curtis Bauer, Jan Beatty, Layla Benitez-James, Jorge Luis Borges, Jenny Boully, Catherine Bowman, Susan Briante, Bobby Byrd, Christopher Carmona, Aline B. Carter, Rosemary Catacalos, Victoria Chang, Hayan Charara, Joshua Edwards, Tarfia Faizullah, Carrie Fountain, Vievee Francis, Mag Gabbert, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Lucy Griffith, Aaron Hand, Fady Joudah, Jim LaVilla-Havelin, Emma Lazarus, J. Estanislao Lopez, Primo Feliciano MarĆn, Pablo Miguel MartĆnez, Walter McDonald, Jasminne Mendez, Townsend Miller, Ange Mlinko, Naomi Shihab Nye, Shin Yu Pai, Cecily Parks, Emmy PĆ©rez, OctavioĀ Quintanilla, Iliana Rocha, Andrea āVocabā Sanderson, ireāne lara silva, Jeff Sirkin, Margo Tamez, Lao Yang, Loretta Diane Walker, Emily Winakur, and Matthew Zapruder.
This book title, Texas, Being (A State of Poems), ISBN: 9781595342928, by Jenny Browne, published by Trinity University Press (April 2, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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