Research Catalog

Title

Rafting the Brazos / Walter McDonald.

Author

McDonald, Walter

Publication

Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press ; College Station, Tex. : Distributed by Texas A & M University Press, ©1988.

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Details

Description

120 pages; 18 cm.

Series Statement

Texas poets series ; no. 1

Uniform Title

Texas poets series ; no. 1.

Subject

• Texas, West > Poetry
• Texas > Poetry
• Texas
• West Texas

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• Poems.

Contents

Starting a pasture -- High Plains orchards -- After the fall -- Hawks, up close and far away -- The wonder of dry fields -- Driving at night through Texas -- Dry land farming -- Nights in the San Juan -- Returning to the scene -- Trout fishing in the Rockies -- The golden bowl -- Bulls at sundown -- Taking off in winter -- Alone with a lantern in winter -- Black wings wheeling -- Fishing the Brazos -- Stories we seem to remember -- Goat ranching on Hardscrabble -- The sting of the visible -- Herding the goats with collies -- Night shuttle -- Cicadas -- Night of the scorpion -- Rafting the Brazos -- Following the dog to water -- First solo -- The songs we fought for -- In all low places -- Grandmother's last years -- In the rare acquisitions room -- Reading the words again in winter -- On the den wall -- Hit and run -- East of Eden -- Sonnets from the personals -- The common air -- Moses, at Jordan -- Another kind of outdoor game -- A brief, familiar story of winter -- The weathermen reports the weather -- The picker takes a cold ride to Austin -- His side of it -- Moving in a mobile time -- Night of the power outage -- At the stone café -- Sleeping on cots at Lake Buchanan -- Leaving a boat on the Brazos -- Coming home -- Grandfather's farm near Morton -- Witching -- On the farm -- The witness of dry plains -- Living on open plains -- Open country -- Sandstorms -- Out of the whirlwind -- Drilling on dry land -- Levels -- Soaring at Marfa -- Prairie dogs live in Lubbock -- Dust devils -- Living in next-year country -- The farm at auction -- Crop dusting in a biplane -- Looking out on the morning -- Learning the story of scars -- Going away together -- Each in its element -- Double mountain fork at the Brazos -- Home -- On a screened porch in the country -- August on Padre Island -- Mainly the values change -- The waves at Padre Island -- At Port Aransas -- Along in a windstorm -- Fishing at Fort Hood -- Without fear of flying -- Ice fishing -- How the records fell -- Wonders of the world -- In the attic -- Jacob's ceiling -- Setting out oaks in winter.

ISBN

• 0929398041
• 9780929398044
• 9780929398006
• 0929398009
• 0929398009 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

88028073

OCLC

• ocm18589211
• 18589211
• SCSB-1725151

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library