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All Occasions de Walt McDonald

All Occasions

Autor Walt McDonald
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 oct 2000
The 65 poems in All Occasions are about a boy who later flies as an Air Force pilot, marries a woman so lovely and loving he's stunned, goes home after a war and discovers with friends and family what John Donne meant in one Christmas sermon: "All occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons." The poems celebrate the wonder and need of all occasions--the heartache and longing and joy of being alone, loved, in war, in a cockpit at 40,000, riding the range on a mustang, and in the arms of a family. From "swaggering to the flight line" as a young pilot to feeling alone in the jungles of Saigon, he goes home to work the ranch and survives largely by learning to connect with others--other old vets, family, and strangers. The book opens with a granddaughter humming and nibbling breakfast while her daddy, back from war, cooks more French toast for her. In part 2 of All Occasions, the writer experiences Vietnam and discovers over swift decades how deeply he needs friends, family, and God. Always, even after flying "to Saigon and back," this book is about the risks and joys of marriage and raising children in a dangerous world, where love is our hope and only grace saves. This is Walt McDonald's eighteenth collection of poems, with his best, most affirmative core.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780268020057
ISBN-10: 0268020051
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Notre Dame Press
Colecția University of Notre Dame Press

Notă biografică

Walt McDonald is the author of nineteen collections of poetry and one book of fiction. More than 2,200 of his poems have been published in journals and magazines, including The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, First Things, New York Review of Books, JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Criterion, Poetry, and The Sewanee Review. McDonald served as Texas Poet Laureate in 2001 and as poetry editor for Texas Tech University Press from 1975 to 1995. He retired in May 2002 as Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English and Poet in Residence at Texas Tech University.

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Award-winning poet Walt McDonald is well known for the skill with which he is able to transform ordinary language into poetry. In this powerful narrative McDonald returns to familiar explorations of his native Texas landscape and the struggle to integrate his wartime experiences into the rest of life.
 
The 65 poems in All Occasions are about a boy who later flies as an Air Force pilot, who marries a woman so lovely and loving he’s stunned, who goes home after a war and discovers with friends and family what John Donne meant in one Christmas sermon: "All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons." The poems celebrate the wonder and need of all occasions, the heartache and longing and joy of being alone or loved—in war, in a cockpit at 40,000 feet, riding the range on a mustang, or in the arms of family. Masterful and wise, All Occasions is Walt McDonald at his best and his most affirmative.
“I’ve been reading Walt McDonald for years. His is the voice among contemporary poets most recognizable to me. This is not to say that his poems are without surprise (and therefore delight), or that he hasn’t grown and developed over the decades. In the same way we know Sinatra, or Willy, or Aretha, we recognize Walt McDonald, an American original. All Occasions gives us, page after page, one of our finest poets at the top of his game.” —David Citino, Professor of English
 
“Walt McDonald has always written moving poems of immense compassion and care. For him, poetry is indeed everywhere, detailing and infusing All Occasions with layered mystery and grace. Give his words to anyone you know who doubts this. Or believe it already. He will befriend them, every one.” —Naomi Shihab Nye, writer and editor
 
“Walt McDonald, like Edwin Arlington Robinson or William Stafford, is an American treasure who fashions from everyday speech a pure and electric poetry. He breaks lines better than most contemporary poets, and his concerns, both modest and universal, search out the region we should hold in the highest regard, the heart, and breaks it—its motions of grace, pity, and fear, its yearning like love to leave in one's wake a healthier atmosphere, if not a better world, for all one holds in affection, a shoring up against those days when all occasions seem indeed to inform against us: a beautiful book.” —Larry Woiwode, author of Beyond the Bedroom Wall and What I Think I Did
 
“Underlying the rich poems of love and life on the Texas plains, Walt McDonald’s All Occasions is haunted by the history of America’s wars in the twentieth century, and the sacrifices they required. The poems explore not just his own memories of Vietnam and his fear and pride at his son’s combat in Desert Storm, but also his grandfathers’ , uncles’ and father’s service in the two world wars. In its quiet and meditative way, it is a death-haunted book. Out of that meditation on the terrible costs of life rises a guilty but real gratitude in being alive.” —Andrew Hudgins