BLESSINGS BODY GAVE (OSU JOURNAL AWARD POETRY) - Hardcover

MCDONALD, WALT

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814208045 ISBN 13: 9780814208045

Publisher: Ohio State University Press, 1998

Synopsis

The moral landscape to which David Citino refers is informed by the experience of war. These poems deal with the loss of Walt McDonald's father in World War II as well as with his own experiences in Vietnam. They tell of living with the memories of war, of celebrating and coping with the fact of survival, in the context of love of one's family in a place at once harsh and beautiful.

About this title

About the Author:

Walt McDonald is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English and the director of Creative Writing at Texas Tech University.

Review:

1945
Adoption
After The Fires We Once Called Vietnam
After The Lost War
Again This Winter
All We Do Is Already History
Alone In The Tundra
Anniversary: One Fine Day
Aunt Linda And The Pink Bikini
Baptizing The Dog At Nine
Before Children
Blessings The Body Gave
A Cabin, Even A Cave
Cars Flash By On The Highway
Cataracts
Catching My Grandson
Crossing The Road
East Of Eden (3)
Fathers And Sons (1)
The First Months Home
Fishing With Uncle Walter In World War Ii
For Donavon, Missing In Action
For God In My Sorrows
The Fox All Winter Long
Gardens Of Sand And Cactus
Grandfather's Pocket Watch
Halfway Between The Gulf And Mountains
How It's Done
In Dickey Country
In Gusty Winds That Wild
Jogging With Oscar
Learning How In The Southwest
Leaving The Scene
Losing It Again In Bozeman
Marriage Is A Bungee Jump
The Moves A Body Makes
My Cousin And The V.a. Nurse
My Father On His Shield
Old Pets
One Summer Before Saigon
Praying For Rain On The Plains
River Of The Arms Of God
Rocket Attack (1)
Scenes From War: The Night I Left The Air Force
Sleeping With The Enemy
Song For One-armed Cowboys
Spitfire
Stones Grandfathers Carved
Sympathy
That Child Abandoned On The Porch
To Have And To Hold
The Track At Saigon
Traveling In Packs
Twins And Oral History
Uncle Bill And Guns
Uncle Douglas And The Whirring Blades
Uncle Earl's Wind River Ranch
Voices On Jukebox Wax
The Waltz We Were Born For
The War In Bosnia
Weeding The Strawberry Garden
What Old Pilots Say
Whatever It Takes (2)
When The Children Have Gone
Where The Fence Goes
While Buffalo Grass Grows Loud If We Listen
Wild Ducks Floating By
The Winter They Bombed Pearl Harbor
With Mercy For All
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0814208045
• ISBN 13: 9780814208045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96