Research Catalog

Title

The essential Walt McDonald / Walt McDonald.

Author

McDonald, Walter

Publication

• Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Kasischke, Laura, 1961-

Description

xxii, 582 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"A lifetime collection of poems by esteemed Texas literary voice Walt McDonald, as selected by the poet himself"--

Subjects

• Poetry
• American poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• "Foreword by Laura Kasischke" -- Dust jacket.

Contents

• Part 1 -- Praise -- My Father on His Shield -- The Waltz We Were Born For -- Baptizing the Dog at Nine -- Crossing the Road -- Hosanna in the Family -- The Night of Rattlesnake Chili -- Uncle Earl's Wind River Ranch -- Driving at Night Across Texas -- The Dark, Hollow Halo of Space -- Faith Is a Radical Master -- One Night Before Saigon -- The Food Pickers of Saigon -- Out of the Stone They Come -- After the Noise of Saigon -- Counting Survivors -- What If I Didn't Die Outside Saigon -- Cascading Down McDonald Creek -- The Digs in Escondido Canyon -- To the Tribe -- Adoption -- One Morning Between Wars -- Blessings the Body Gave -- Autumn in Our Hands -- Old Pets -- That Child Abandoned on the Porch -- The One That Got Away -- Stumbling to the Deck at Dawn -- Halfway Between the Gulf and Mountains -- Watching Dawn on Padre Island -- Gardens of Sand and Cactus -- Dark as the Plains Out There -- In Gusty Winds That Wild -- What Old Pilots Say -- Squall Line at Sixty-five -- For Friends Still in Vietnam -- Killing Nothing but Time -- All We Do Is Already History -- Learning How in the Southwest -- Diamonds in the Carnegie Museum -- Boiling Shells at Kitty Hawk -- Hardscrabble, Tooth and Claw -- When Children Think You Can Do Anything -- The Dust We're Made Of -- Dazzling Montana Dawns -- After His Apache Crashed -- The Winter They Bombed Pearl Harbor -- Rocking for Days in the Shade -- Wishing for More Than Thunder -- Climbing the Divide in Montana -- Fishing with Uncle Walter -- When It Seemed Easy -- Uncle Earl's Last Ride in Dallas -- Witching on Canvas -- The Hairpin Curve at Durango -- Watching for Ships off Padre Island -- Before the Glaciers Melt -- Barter -- Boys and Their Fathers' Shotguns -- In the Shallow Molasses -- Harvest All Year Long -- When the Children Have Gone -- The Summer Her Family Moved to Houston -- Grandmother Bankhead's Lake -- Backpacking with My Bride in Montana -- Songs of Country Girls -- Cousin Billy and the Weather -- Bull -- Goat Ranching viii Contents -- Bulls, at Sundown -- In Green Pastures -- Lay Down the Battle Axe, the Halyard -- October Compost -- The War in Bosnia, the Beach at Kitty Hawk -- Stoking the Logs at Dawn -- A Thousand Miles of Stars -- When I Glance Up -- Batting Practice at Sixty -- All Dogs Are Pirates -- Old Pilots in the Crowd at Kitty Hawk -- Christmas Bells, Saigon -- When Rockets Fell Like Stars -- Crashes Real and Imagined -- Grandmother's Thousand Cats -- Giving Time to the Dirt in Rows -- Taking the Keys Away -- Words I Looked Up in World War II -- Marriage Is a Bungee Jump gg Breathless for Twenty Seconds -- This Could Be Eden -- A Little World Made Cunningly -- Packing Parachutes in Flight School -- After the Mad Songs of Saigon -- Bull-Necked and Square-Jawed After Saigon -- Caught in a Storm on Hardscrabble -- Estacado -- Jogging at Sixty-five -- The Rodeo Fool -- Setting the Torch to Stubble -- We Called It Entering Heaven -- The Eyes in Jimmy Ray's Shed -- In the Alchemist's Household -- The Moves a Body Makes -- To Have and to Hold -- Leaving the Scene -- Five Fathoms Down Off Hatteras -- Look at That, There's Shorty! -- With Mercy for All -- A Glimpse of Silver -- Survival Training -- Blocks Grandfather Carved -- Growing Up by the Brazos -- For All Friends Missing in Action -- Before Flying Off to War -- Voices on Jukebox Wax -- Spitfire -- After Thousands of Miles -- I Still Can't Say the Word -- Uncle Charlie at the Abbey -- The Risk of Having Children -- Sympathy -- Jogging at Sundown -- Backpacking the San Juan -- Reading "Ecclesiastes" at Sixty -- Watching Parades in the Game Room -- Living on Buried Water -- Flood Fishing -- Old Men Fishing at Brownwood -- Night Missions -- Nothing to Do but Start Over -- A Fed Bear Is a Dead Bear -- Fog on the Outer Banks -- Twins and Oral History -- How It's Done -- Anniversary: One Fine Day -- The Fox All Winter Long -- Grandfather's Pocket Watch -- Catching My Grandson -- Alone in the Tundra -- PTSD, or For Friends Who Never Left the Battle -- Losing It Again in Bozeman -- As Natural as Lions -- My Father Light as a Boy -- Old Men Are Dreamers -- The Summer Uncle Carl's Herd Was Sold -- Facing It -- Clouds Whip by in the Valley -- Finding Great-Grandfather's Hands -- The First Months Home, PTSD -- My Cousin and the VA Nurse -- Grandchildren in the Maritime Museum -- Between Two Shores of Toledo -- Flicking Its Tongue at the Sun -- Watching Rose Embers Wink -- After the Lost War -- For God in My Sorrows -- The Tongues of Sparrows -- Traveling in Packs -- With Our Son's Bow at Dusk -- After Fires in Montana -- Island Hopping with MacArthur -- Song for One-Armed Cowboys -- Stones Grandfathers Carved -- Weeding Strawberry Gardens -- All I Know to Do -- That Clatter in the Attic -- Bless Weeds That Bloom in Fall -- The Year Biology Made Sense -- Blizzards When I Was Ten -- Aunt Linda and the Pink Bikini -- The Midas Touch in Texas -- The Women Under Rubens' Thumb -- Jogging with Oscar -- Part 2 -- Mesas I Never Took the Time to Climb -- Marriage -- Summer Nights -- Oranges for My Sister When She Was Nine -- Digging in a Footlocker -- Buzzing in a Biplane -- The Songs We Fought For -- Night Solo, Georgia -- Flying a Perfect Loop -- Night Landings -- Hazards of Flight -- First Solo in Thunder -- For Dawes, on Takeoff -- The Children of Saigon -- For Friends Missing in Action -- The Gleam of Silver Wings -- Bargaining with God -- Wherever Puff Goes -- Rembrandt and the Art of Mercy -- First Solo -- Nights on the Porch Swing -- Nothing Should Be Alone for Long -- A Woman Acquainted with the Night -- Opening the Cabin in April -- Casting at Vallecito -- Heirlooms -- Wind and Hardscrabble -- Magical Hammocks at Bedtime -- Nights without Rockets -- Crows at Dawn in Montana -- Whatever It Takes -- Seining for Bass -- Living on Open Plains -- Loading the Steers -- Finding My Father's Hands in Midlife -- Grandmother's House at Kitty Hawk -- Bulldozing the Outer Banks -- What the Wind Delivers -- Settling the Plains -- Wind in the Rockies -- Praying for Rain on the Plains -- Living Near Oak Creek Dam -- The Mind Is a Hawk -- Retrievers in Winter -- Blue Jays in Summer -- Perpetual Motion -- The Golden Years -- All That Aches and Blesses -- Geldings on Mountain Ranches -- Tornado Chasing -- Stalls in All Weather -- Ranching at Glacier -- Signs of Prairie Rattlers -- Sleeping with Strangers -- Big Dogs after War -- Where the Train Slows Down -- Fences -- Praying for Rain in the Rockies -- Cattle in Rain -- The Tap of Angry Reins -- The Flying Dutchman -- The Art of Growing Old -- A Round Horizon without a Town -- Dogs in the World They Own -- Letting Go -- Time for the Traction of Docks -- Leaving Sixty -- Reaching Sixty -- Losing a Boat on the Brazos -- Saying the Blessing -- Turning Sixty-five on Hardscrabble -- Honky-Tonk Blues -- The Price They Paid for Range -- On the Gunnison -- Uncles on Sunday Battlegrounds -- Wishing for Easter All Year Long -- Tracking on Hardscrabble -- A Little Night Music -- Opening the Cabin in March -- Dawn on the Outer Banks -- How Much Time We're Promised -- Father's Field of Pheasants -- On a Saturday Afternoon -- Grace and the Blood of Goats -- Rowing in Eden -- Bones in a San Juan Mine, 11,000' -- Someday -- Farms at Auction -- Rodeo Bulls -- Coyotes and Dogs -- Neighbors Miles Away -- Uncle Jerry and the Velvet Dog -- The Meaning of Flat Fields -- Coming Home -- Charts -- Valley of the Shadow of Death -- Uncle Philip and the Endless Names -- The Invention of Courage -- My Cousin and the Widow's Ranch -- Sausage in the Mess Hall -- Who Swears the Last Blind Beggar's Doomed? -- Buzzards and Uncle Douglas -- Aunt Emma and the Spoils of War -- Hammering Ice to Slush -- Splitting Wood for Winter -- Filing Systems -- The Middle Years -- After a Year in Korea -- Grandfather Pounding Iron -- The Winter Daddy Died -- Windmills Like Cathedral Windows -- Prairie Was a Tableland of Praise -- Uncle Howell and the Magic of Moonlight -- The Perks of Being a Greenhorn -- Hardscrabble June -- Making Book on the Aquifer -- Getting It Done -- Out in the Pasture at Dusk -- Tasting the Night Air Gladly -- Pleasures of Coffee Together -- Boys with Chihuahua Dogs -- The War in Bosnia -- The Rockets' Red Glare -- Hauling over Wolf Creek Pass in Winter -- Part 3 -- Seconds of Free Fall and Chaos -- Fifth Grade -- Digging on Hardscrabble -- Hawks in a Bitter Blizzard -- All the Old Songs -- With Horsehairs Dipped in Oils -- After Eden -- A Brief Familiar Story of Winter -- Starting a Pasture -- Blue Skies -- There Are No Old Bold Pilots -- The Winter Before the War -- Bloodlines -- With Cindy at Vallecito -- Growing Up Flying -- Fathers and Sons -- Sons -- Fathers and Pearl Harbor -- Dad's Straight Razor -- Barking Hosanna -- Wherever Others Are Going -- One Summer Before Saigon -- Sweet Nothings -- Slow Times Near the River -- Sunday Morning Roundup -- After the Flight Home from Saigon -- The Goats of Summer -- When It Thunders -- Alone in a Windstorm -- Beans Grown in Caliche -- After the Madness of Saigon -- Crop Dusting in a Biplane -- Without Fear of Flying -- Jacob's Ceiling -- The Summer Our Grandsons Turned Twelve -- Night Shuttle -- Pulling Old Gloves Back On -- Hawks, Up Close and Far Away
• The Songs at Rusty's -- Hawks in the World They Own -- The Skulls That Eat Such Dust -- Designed for the Shallows -- Out of the Whirlwind -- Mercy and the Brazos River -- Rafting the Brazos -- Wolves in Playa Lakes -- At the Stone Cafe -- Our Neighbor Who Kept Pigeons -- Consider the Lilies -- Uncle Homer and the Cubs -- Rattler -- Watching for Signs -- In Hot, Hardscrabble Skies -- Rattlesnakes Locked Eyes with Me -- Can Deserts Like Dead Bones Live? -- Two Years After World War II -- Hauling on Hardscrabble -- Witching on Sand -- Nights in the San Juan -- Fishing the Brazos -- Midnight Near Pecos -- Night of the Scorpion -- Dust Devils -- Learning the Story of Scars -- How the Records Fell -- Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos -- Caught in a Squall Near Matador -- Where Seldom Is Heard -- The Neighbor -- Black Wings Wheeling -- Found in an Alley Dumpster -- High Plains Orchards -- Spending the Night Near Matador -- The Beach at Kitty Hawk, the Long Ride Home -- High Plains Drifter -- Moses, at Jordan -- A Distant Relative -- Billy Bastrop and the Centipede -- Teeth Know -- The Girl in the Mackinaw and Panties -- Hit and Run -- University Library -- Bermuda Grass -- Flamingos on the Plains -- Boys and the Laws of Mercy -- Hunting the Pasture -- Dawn of the Bitter Blizzard -- Goats Imported from Austin -- Searching -- The Snowplow Driver -- The Last Five Acres of Timber -- A Thousand Yards Downhill -- Weeds, Barn Owls, All Nibbling Goats -- Taking Each Deep Breath -- Pools Under the Campus -- Steeples and Deep Wells -- Where Skies Are Not Cloudy -- Releasing the Hawk in August -- Picasso and the Art of Angels -- Steers in Blizzards -- Lockett, Where the Water Quit -- Stars and the Laws of Motion -- Windmills Near Escondido Canyon -- Driving Home to the Plains -- One Thing Leads to Another -- The Last Saloon in Lockett -- The Ogallala Water Table -- Anniversary Six Miles High -- On Losing a Child -- Hosannas Dangling on Strings -- Where the Trees Go -- It's Still the Same Old Story -- Part 4 -- Hunting First Drafts in Vinny's Place -- The Second Sign -- Banjo Saturday Nights -- Jostled Pods of a Yucca -- Sandlot Baseball, Before Pearl Harbor -- After the Long Flight Home from Seoul -- At the Football Stadium -- Town Girls When I Was Nine -- Doctors, Lawyers, Undertakers -- A Bowl, A Little Skull -- Climbing Geometry -- Hoping the Playground Would Notice -- Sounds in the Mountain Cabin -- Against This Winter -- After Living a Long Time Alone -- Well I'll Be Damned -- What Clark Taught about Cockpits and Sonnets -- Finding a Cracker-Jack Surprise -- Ponderosa of a Thousand Fires -- A Clown Fired from a Cannon -- The Oldest Nurse in Our Hometown -- A Woman Titian Would Love -- Uncle Oscar's Trophies -- Belling the Cat -- If Owl Named the Animals -- My Brother's Photos from Okinawa -- What I Can't Promise -- Grandfather and the Boys He Knew in School -- The Range Looks Flat to Cattle -- Tugging Bull-Necked Oxen -- What Uncle Don Saw on Guam -- Things About to Disappear -- Uncle George and the Farm Aunt Martha Bought -- Night Watch -- The Farm at Auction -- A Player that Struts and Frets on Stage -- Cousin Eddy and the Packed Chapel -- Riding the Range for Strays -- Scanning the Range for Strays -- Mother's Hand-Stitched Seams -- Leaving the Middle Years -- Pastures on the Plains -- Ars Poetica, Pilgrim -- Night of the Steep Arroyo -- With a Woman Who Looks Like Crystal Gayle -- Ten Miles of Coyotes -- Dawn in Montana -- That Night and Others Like It -- The Noise of Jukebox Steel Guitars -- Loaded for Bulldozers and Bears -- Looking for Dry Land -- Nearing the End of a Century -- Faith is a Beast and Blessing 5io Billy Cox and the Rocket -- Night of the Bonfire Club -- December after World War Two -- The Tongues of Birds -- Midnight Near Ralls -- Someone I Hadn't Thought of in Years -- Toulouse, Maurice, Francois of Tulia -- To All Friends Fast Asleep -- Strokes -- After the Fall of Bataan -- Catfish Farm on the Brazos -- The Last Unstocked Stream in Colorado -- On Taking a Small Son Hunting -- Ejecting from Jets -- Reasons for Taking Risks -- Driving Rampart Range on Our Honeymoon -- Harvest -- Long in the Tooth and Tame -- The Mating Season -- On Sons and Sleeping Dogs -- May All Our Babies Have Angels -- Aunt Emma's Garden -- In the High-Country Medical Center -- Father and the Sad Soap Operas -- Angelica's Banjo and Karate -- Uncle Carl and the Purple Heart -- A Time to Keep Silence -- Retired Pilots at the High School Track -- What Do You Wish They Could Do? -- Wars and Rumors of War -- My Wife's First Day of Class -- Father after the War -- The Right to Bear Arms -- After the Random Tornado -- Midnight at Dillon -- Temple of the Lame, the Grateful -- The Last Pullman to Houston -- Cousin Roy's Gold Star and Market -- Ranching at Ridgeway -- Dawn on the Telephone Wires -- Uncle Giuseppe and the Razor's Edge -- Nobody Dead or Missing -- Home Movies -- Granny Hedy and the God Called Fine -- Ranching in the San Juan -- What Old Pilots Never Did but Once -- Marching Through Georgia -- Uncle Leland and the Laws of Boulders -- Tactics -- After the Monsoon -- Keeping Up with the Joneses -- In Times of Plenty -- War Never Stops until All Vets Are Dead -- Summer with Dakota -- Trusting in Women Who Fly -- The B-25 and Bombs -- Wishing for Friends from Childhood -- Tommy and the Appaloosa -- Joe Bubba's Grandpa's Barn -- Boys and Girls by the Brazos -- Gehenna and the County's Tires -- Search and Rescue -- What We Wouldn't Give -- Cougars and Uncle Bob -- Approaching the Condo -- Believing Every Word -- Grandmother and the Lions' Den -- What Saves Us -- Keeping Time by the Clatter of Horseshoes -- Grandchildren Tumbling from Cars -- Mercy Was a Plate of Peas and Cornbread.

Call Number

JFE 22-4657

ISBN

• 9781682831212
• 1682831213

LCCN

2021030488

OCLC

1245345995

Author

McDonald, Walter, author.

Title

The essential Walt McDonald / Walt McDonald.

Publisher

Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Kasischke, Laura, 1961- writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4657