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  title info:
    title: Texas, being
    sub title: a state of poems
  name:
    name part: Browne, Jenny
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 83 pages ; 19 cm.
  abstract: Texas, Being: A State of Poems collects forty-five poems from a beautiful and brutal state. Some are about the music of their languages. Some speak to the dead, some to the sun and others to omissions of history. One concerns a hedgehog cactus, and another a roller rink. From "Happy, Texas" to "Palestine, Texas," from seashores to skeletons to Selena, all are in one way or another about Texas, but good poems are always about more than one thing. Selected by Texas poet Jenny Browne, these poems draw a picture of one of America's 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 "where blind catfish cruise" and wild asters grow. It's a frame of mind where Jenny Boully writes "the history is unending" and Mexican American studies professor Christopher Carmona can "feel the slowness of time." Jorge Luis Borges wrote of it as "an endless plain / Where a man's cry dies a lonely death." Victoria Chang writes that "there is so / much sky that even birds / get lost." Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson describes her hometown as a "fiercely loving city tougher on the outside / but smooth as pecan shells," and Naomi Shihab Nye reminds us to "be patient, sure there's lots of bad around / but more room for good too, with all this empty." Whether it is Joshua Edwards imagining his photographer father or Primo Feliciano Marín's declaration "Hail Texas, fraught with charms unknown," these voices, past and present, give us a glimpse into the poetic soul of the nation's 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 LaV…
  note: edited by Jenny Browne.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Texas
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)
  subject:
    topic: POETRY / American / General
  classification: PS558.T4 T3485 2024
  classification: 811.00809764
  identifier: 9781595342928
  identifier: 1595342923
  identifier: 9781595342935
  identifier: 2023045733
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231101
    record change date: 20240624183402.5
    record identifier: in00004793400