billy bob hill editor (9 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 1st edition-Very good+/ signed by author and a.c. greene.

Hardcover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 497 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The back panel of the jacket has considerable offsetting of the jacket ink from another copy. Texas in Poetry 2 can be read straight through as a commentary on life in the Lone Star State. Or it can be read a poem or author at a time. But if read straight through from "I'll Take Texas" to "No Quittin' Sense" the whole Texas experience as seen by more than a hundred poets cannot fail to make an impact on the reader. Editor Billy Bob Hill includes such poets as Mirabeau B. Lamar, a Texas president and poetaster from the days of the Republic; Berta Harte Nance, author of the centennial poem that begins "Other states were carved or born/But Texas grew from hide and horn"--lines that furnished at least one book title and occasioned a number of parodies. And, of course, one poem about Texas that is magnificent in its awfulness, "Laska," with memorable lines like "Scratches don't count/In Texas down by the Rio Grande." But most of the poems in this large, handsome volume are much superior to the representative early poems included. All the well-known poets in the state are included--writers like Walter McDonald, Betsy Colquitt, and Vassar Miller--as well as newer writers. Nor has the editor failed to offer a generous sampling of the state's best minority voices--Carmen Tafolla, Rolando Hinojosa, Lorenzo Thomas, Jas. Mardis, Ray Gonzalez, and Teresa Paloma Acosta. The volume is divided into sections with titles suggested by well-known books by Texas authors. Some of the sections are "I'll Take Texas" (from Mary Lasswell's book); "Faces of Blood Kindred" (William Goyen's original title); "This Stubborn Soil" (from the first volume of William A. Owens's autobiography); and, from A. C. Greene's memoir about West Texas, "A Personal Country." Texas in Poetry 2 is a revised and updated edition of Hill's popular and definitive Texas in Poetry: A 150-Year Anthology. In this volume, as in the previous edition, Hill presents a selection of representative Texas poems from the early days of the colony to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Included in the volume are some bad but famous old-time poems, but most of the selections compare favorably with the best poetry being written today. Among the poets are: Betty Adcock, Betsy Colquitt, Walt McDonald, Jas. Mardis, Rolando Hinojosa, Vassar Miller, Naomi Shihab Nye, Carol Culler, William D. Barney, Rosemary Cataclos, Lorenzo Thomas, William Virgil Davis, Jack Myers, Carol Coffee Reposa, Karle Wilson Baker, Ray Gonzalez, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Rick Sale, Gene Shuford, Faye Yauger, Arthur Sampley and Faye Carr Adams.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. illustrated edition. 74 pages. 5.75x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 96 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

(1997). First edition. Trade paperback original. Inscribed and SIGNED by actress Holly Hunter at a book publication party. Fine in pictorial wraps. Thick tall octavo. 549 pages. Also inscribed and SIGNED to the front endpaper by the following contributors: Betsy Berry, Guida Jackson, Jill Patterson, and James Ward Lee. TEXAS SHORT STORIES features an astonishing collection of established writers and newcomers, Mr. Hill has gathered 55 previously unpublished short stories exploring the emotional, geographical, historical and textural landscape indigenous to the state.

Softcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. INSCRIBED & dated in year of publication by editor Billy Bob Hill on front end-paper. Additionally INSCRIBED by contributor Camilla Carr on front end-paper. Though not a contributor the noted actress Holly Hunter has also INSCRIBED the book on front end-paper. "To. Thanks for being here today- All the Best. Holly Hunter." Would be fine in thick trade-size paperback wrappers, but for accidental pen squib at fore edge.

[Larry McMurtry Collection] Billy Bob Hill, editor.Texas in Poetry 2.Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2002. First edition. Inscribed by the author: " To Larry McMurtry, / with great respect. / Thanks, / Billy Bob Hill." Quarto. 497pp. Publisher's beige cloth, spine lettered in red, original unclipped dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. . Slight rubbing and wear to jacket, else fine.