West of the American dream : an encounter with Texas / Paul Christensen.
Material type: TextSeries: Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 14.Publication details: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xv, 340 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1585449318
- 9781585449316
- Christensen, Paul, 1943- -- Homes and haunts -- Texas
- Sánchez, Ricardo, 1941-1995
- Gordone, Charles
- Miller, Vassar
- Christensen, Paul, 1943-
- Gordone, Charles
- Miller, Vassar
- Sánchez, Ricardo, 1941-1995
- American poetry -- Texas -- History and criticism
- American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- English teachers -- Texas -- Biography
- Texas -- In literature
- Texas -- Civilization
- Poésie américaine -- Texas -- Histoire et critique
- Poésie américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Poètes américains -- 20e siècle -- Biographies
- Professeurs d'anglais -- Texas -- Biographies
- Texas -- Dans la littérature
- Texas -- Civilisation
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
- American poetry
- Civilization
- English teachers
- Homes
- Literature
- Poets, American
- Texas
- American Literature
- English
- Languages & Literatures
- 1900-1999
- 811/.5099764 21
- PS266.T4 C47 2001eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-325) and index.
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"Like many a pioneer exiting the eastern forests, Paul Christensen felt the strangeness of an alien landscape when he first arrived in Texas in 1974. Schooled in the cool colors of life and poetry in the urban East, he approached his new career in the Southwest with missionary zeal and purpose: to discover the land and the kind of people and poetry it produced."
"West of the American Dream is a multifaceted account of the search. Christensen shares his feelings of culture shock in east-central Texas as he meets the cowboy version of the blue-collar Texan and his Mexican American neighbours. He introduces readers to the convoluted history of poetry in Texas, a tradition, started by women, that shifted from a focus on the land to the quotidian habits of urban living. Using a unique dissection of the public ritual of a poetry reading, Christensen assesses the origins of modern poetry, the value of imagination in modernist and postmodernist verse, and what Texas poets achieved and how their work evolved after World War II."--Jacket.
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