Dave Oliphant

"Written with knowledge and sympathy, the poem contains a delightful tangle of details. Lyndon Johnson, Elisabet Ney, Peter Flawn, Custer, O. Henry, and Joseph Jones (the sage of Waller Creek)--public figures and personal friends interact in the city of Oliphant's imagination....A lengthy proem, set...

The early swing era of jazz, from 1930 to 1941, represents both an extension of developments of the previous decade and an introduction of new tendencies that influenced subsequent periods of jazz history. Major big bands and individual artists established important styles that brought...

Dave Oliphant is widely considered the finest poetry critic ever produced by Texas. This volume brings together some 40 years of essays, articles, and reviews on the topic of Texas poetry -- its history as well as addressing individual poets and their books. Only...

Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorham's recordings in Denmark, this book-length poem traces the story of the Texan's career performing with the greatest musicians of the...

Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorham's recordings in Denmark, this poetic biography traces the story of musician Kenny Dorham's career performing with the greatest legends of...

A book forty-one years in the making, written between 1975 and 2016, Dave Oliphant's María's Book presents what Douglas Flaherty has called "a delicately passionate record of an internationally conspired love affair. Oliphant's poems to his wife are valentines for the ages." With its...

In this book of poetry, Dave Oliphant examines the Lone Star State from border to border focusing on its history, its cities, its towns--and, especially--on its people."Oliphant, walking through the events and places of his own life, walks as well through the continuing presence...

Summing Up is a new and collected manuscript of Dave Oliphant's poetry spanning his entire career from the 1959 to today. Oliphant is a translator, English professor, and world traveler. His experiences in life, literature, and love span the pages of this finely crafted...

Texas musicians and jazz share a history that goes all the way back to the origins of jazz in ragtime, blues, and boogie-woogie. Texans have left their mark on all of jazz's major movements, including hot jazz, swing, bebop, the birth of the cool,...

Dave Oliphant's thirteenth book of poetry, The Cowtown Circle, is divided into six sections, moving from an eclectic gathering of poems devoted to nature, topical issues, and the imprisonment of captured WWII German soldiers in Hearne, Texas, to a section of Mar a Poems...

With these poems devoted to jazz, Dave Oliphant offers a testament to the variety and significance of the art form and its artists. These poems are an attempt to pay homage to the art of jazz and to its musicians, whose lives and performances...

In the tradition of literary pilgrimages, the one is this book is both physical and spiritual. Dave Oliphant moves us around West, Central, and East Texas in poems named after towns: Wink, Denton, Houston, Honey Island. These poems find the spiritual in the ordinary...

The travel memoirs of poet Dave Oliphant, adventuring through Brazil and Chile, containing a new series of sonnets, a "collection of reflections of a life in and in-between languages, cultures, and words...."Author: Dave OliphantISBN-10: 1943306214ISBN-13: 9781943306213Publisher: Alamo Bay PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2021Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize:...