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- catalog abstract ""Like many a pioneer exiting the eastern forests, Paul Christensen felt the strangeness of an alien landscape when he first arrived in Texas in 1974. Schooled in the cool colors of life and poetry in the urban East, he approached his new career in the Southwest with missionary zeal and purpose: to discover the land and the kind of people and poetry it produced." "West of the American Dream is a multifaceted account of the search. Christensen shares his feelings of culture shock in east-central Texas as he meets the cowboy version of the blue-collar Texan and his Mexican American neighbours. He introduces readers to the convoluted history of poetry in Texas, a tradition, started by women, that shifted from a focus on the land to the quotidian habits of urban living. Using a unique dissection of the public ritual of a poetry reading, Christensen assesses the origins of modern poetry, the value of imagination in modernist and postmodernist verse, and what Texas poets achieved and how their work evolved after World War II."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12093657.
- catalog coverage "Texas Civilization.".
- catalog coverage "Texas In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Texas Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Like many a pioneer exiting the eastern forests, Paul Christensen felt the strangeness of an alien landscape when he first arrived in Texas in 1974. Schooled in the cool colors of life and poetry in the urban East, he approached his new career in the Southwest with missionary zeal and purpose: to discover the land and the kind of people and poetry it produced."".
- catalog description ""West of the American Dream is a multifaceted account of the search. Christensen shares his feelings of culture shock in east-central Texas as he meets the cowboy version of the blue-collar Texan and his Mexican American neighbours. He introduces readers to the convoluted history of poetry in Texas, a tradition, started by women, that shifted from a focus on the land to the quotidian habits of urban living. Using a unique dissection of the public ritual of a poetry reading, Christensen assesses the origins of modern poetry, the value of imagination in modernist and postmodernist verse, and what Texas poets achieved and how their work evolved after World War II."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-325) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 340 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "West of the American dream.".
- catalog identifier "0890967539 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "West of the American dream.".
- catalog isPartOf "Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 14".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "College Station : Texas A&M University Press,".
- catalog relation "West of the American dream.".
- catalog spatial "Texas Civilization.".
- catalog spatial "Texas In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Texas Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "Texas".
- catalog subject "811/.5099764 21".
- catalog subject "American poetry 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American poetry Texas History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christensen, Paul, 1943- Homes and haunts Texas.".
- catalog subject "English teachers Texas Biography.".
- catalog subject "Gordone, Charles.".
- catalog subject "Miller, Vassar.".
- catalog subject "PS266.T4 C47 2001".
- catalog subject "Poets, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Sánchez, Ricardo, 1941-".
- catalog title "West of the American dream : an encounter with Texas / Paul Christensen.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".