Research Catalog

Title

Descant, fifty years : the literary journal of TCU / edited by Dave Kuhne [and others].

Publication

Fort Worth, TX : TCU Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kuhne, Dave.

Description

214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Through the pages of descant: Fifty Years readers can see how the journal has shifted from a publication that enveloped everything from poetry to literary criticism to creative nonfiction to a literary volume that now focuses solely on poetry and short fiction. Discover descant: Fifty Years and see how a small group of students, a professor, and a few friends started what may be Fort Worth's "best kept secret.""--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Descant (Fort Worth, Tex.)

Subjects

• American literature > 21st century
• American literature > 20th century
• Descant (Fort Worth, Tex.)

Contents

Introduction / Dave Kuhne -- Descant: A Memoir / Betsy Colquitt Part 1: 1956-1969 -- Cricket From a Yellow Room / Bill Camfield -- Fish Caught / Betsy Colquitt -- Translations from the "Triumphs" of Petrarch / Albert Howard Carter and Ben Kimpel -- The Man on the Square Meditates on the Urban Movement / Jim Corder -- How I Live in a Drug Store / Edsel Ford -- Many Ways / Charles Bukowski -- The Sweet Waters of Asia / Anne Leaton -- Everybody Knows Tobie / Daniel Garza -- The Killdeer Crying / William D. Barney -- The Bad Time / Robert L. Flynn -- What is Creative Writing? Or Playing Footsie with the Philistines / Karl Shapiro -- Learning to Write / Robert Penn Warren -- The Cove / William A. Kittredge -- Yelling / Coleman Barks -- Spending the Day / J. M. Ferguson, Jr. -- Red Snow / Denise Levertov -- Sestina: Letters from a Girl in the Peace Corps / Richard Snyder -- Pt. 2. 1970-1989 -- Introduction / Daniel E. Williams -- Remembering a Mustang She Rode to the South / Colette Inez -- The Porcupines / Greg Kuzma -- A Human Interest Death / David Madden -- Peripheral Vision / Doris Betts -- Cam Rahn Bay Hospital Surgical Ward / Walter McDonald -- The Door / David Bottoms -- Ashes to Syllables / Kelly Cherry -- Female Cousins at Thanksgiving / Paul Ruffin -- Nobody Listens When I Talk / Annette Sanford -- How You Came / Pattiann Rogers -- Poetics 105 / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Garbage Man / D. C. Berry -- Identify These Parts of the Body / Lee Abbott -- Arrest / Jerry Bradley -- Minor Accident Near the Check-out Stand / Tony Clark -- Hill Country Rest Home / Carol Coffee Reposa -- Bottles / Taylor Graham -- Herefords in Winter / Larry D. Thomas -- Pt. 3. 1990-2005 -- Introduction / Charlotte Hogg -- Fish / Ulf Kirchdorfer -- We Lead Three Lives / Robert Wexelblatt -- In Sweden / Robert Coles -- Hurricane / Robert Parham -- Any Minute / Jill Patterson -- Out of Rosehaven / Clyde Edgerton -- The Porch Swing / R. S. Gwynn -- Flamingos Have Arrived in Ashtabula / Andrew Hudgins -- Dove Season / William Harrison -- Boiled White / John Byron Yarbrough -- I Named My Cat "Keats" / Charles Harper Webb -- Where You Begin / Bruce Machart -- Land of the Lotus Eaters: Sea Island, Georgia / Dana Roeser -- The Real Funeral / Ronald E. Moore -- Bimaristan Arghun / Chris Ellery -- In a Cabin on the Cossatot River / Bonnie Hunter -- Instead of a Wedding Dress / Catherine McCraw.

ISBN

• 9780875653488 (alk. paper)
• 0875653480 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007038621
• 99933559478

OCLC

• ocn173659481
• 173659481
• SCSB-5467623

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries