Designed to enhance high school students' appreciation of the rich
variety of Texas poetry, ""A Students' Treasury of Texas Poetry""
contains poems from the earliest beginnings of Texas, including
work by Sam Houston and Mirabeau B. Lamar, to the work of
contemporary poets like Naomi Shihab Nye, Larry McMurtry, Rolando
Hinojosa-Smith, Jas. Mardis, and Carmen Tafolla. Hill groups the
poems in categories, setting out the history of Texas from
pre-history in poems like Larry D. Thomas' ""Caddoan Indian Mound""
or Alan Birkelbach's ""Coronado Points,"" to a chronicle of Texas
counties in such poems as ""Haiku: Hands shading my eyes,"" by
Michael Moore, or ""The Poet Gets Drowsy on the Road,"" by
Frederick Turner. Texas poets examine the variety of family life in
poems such as Red Steagall's ""The Memories in Grandmother's
Trunk,"" ""Mi Tia Sofia,"" by Carmen Tafolla, or ""Growing Up near
Escondido Canyon,"" by Walt McDonald. Even the weather and Texas'
varied creatures are fodder for the poet's speculation, and Hill
includes ""Good-bye Summer,"" by Jas. Mardis, and ""Summer Begins
Outside Dalhart, Texas,"" by Mary Vanek, as well as ""Mr. Bloomer's
Birds,"" by William D. Barney, and ""A Mockingbird,"" by Boyce
House. The final chapter features attempts by poets to define the
mysterious state that is Texas and includes, among others,
""litany: blood in the soil/texas (an excerpt),"" by Sharon
Bridforth, and ""Our Texas Economy,"" by Chuck Taylor.
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