Joanie whitebird (5 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. TRAVOIS, AN ANTHOLOGY OF TEXAS POETRY, edited by Joanie Whitebird and Paul Foreman, softcover, stated first printing, illustrated with photos and drawings, 1976. BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition with no dog-ears, tears, or marks. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. This is not a library book nor a remainder. The golden-yellow wraps are in good condition (chipping along top and bottom edges, a few creases on the back cover, slight curling of upper right-hand corner). 11 x 8 ½, 156 pages, 17 ounces. XX [from the introduction] This anthology would probably have appeared this year, even were this year not a birthday [Bicentennial of the United States]. The groundswell of writing and publishing in Texas has something of the nature of winter oats, the blades breaking the ground even where there is yet frost. Particular thanks need to go to Dave Oliphant, one of the first -- out of Fort Worth -- who saw the quality of the poetry being done by Texans and set some of it down in his fine anthology, The New Breed. Nearly all of the poets gathered here were born and raised in Texas. A few are married to Texans and have spent enough time in the state to have had their souls forever baptized by what Grady Helman says is the call of Texas rivers. What do you call such a gathering of Texas poetry -- from the Plains, from the cities, from the Hill Country, the pine country, the South Coast. Curiously the French and Indian cultures, both of which lie more in the past, furnish the strongest words for the wilderness of the Texas mind these writers are crossing. Joanie's title, which won out, Travois (the sled pulled first by the Comanche's dogs, and later by their horses, which they called the dog-god), that beautiful French word which conveys all the pain of traveling, the picking up stakes and moving on, and still deeper -- the travail of life, the carrying across from one culture to another, the handing down from parent to child, that the wisdom gained from life to live life might not perish in the face of death.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Stapled wraps, illustrated front cover, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, unpaginated. Substantial uniform browning of pages due to the inherent quality of paper used, else very good plus. (1722RO090x2).

Staplebound wraps. Condición: Very Good. Small 8vo, pp. unnumbered. Head and heel of spine and corners lightly bumped, light foxing and handling to wrappers, gentle crease to lower page corners.

First edition. Hardcover issue of this collection of poems from Judson Crews. An early book from the press, and uncommonly found signed by Crews and Joanie Whitebird, who founded Wings Press with Joseph F. Lomax in 1975. 12mo, 60pp. IIllustrations by Lori Felton. Signed by Crews and initialed by the editor and founder of the press, Joanie Whitebird, on the title page. Paper over boards, lettered in black, with portrait illustration on rear cover. Very good with some foxing to edges of boards, page block edge, and preliminaries.…

[32p] 5.75x8.75 inches, poetry, very good chapbook in stapled pictorial wraps. Joanie Thomas was a poet in Texas who also ran Wings Press and several poetry salons like Southern Seed. She attended Vassar and was a traveler and mystic. This is an early publication.