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Author McDonald, Walter

Title Great lonely places of the plains / poems by Walt McDonald ; photographs by Wyman Meinzer
Published Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 165 pages) : color illustrations
Summary A lasting tribute to the land that bore a state photographer and state poet laureate. Clarity, focus, and startling detail are the stuff of lasting images--in poetry or photography. It is all about beholding, about taking in what is ours to absorb--if only we will. Little can overwhelm the senses more than our great lonely plains, expanses of sky and horizon so enormous that sometimes composition gets lost in between. Who better, then, to illuminate what would elude us than a native state photographer and native state poet laureate? Although Meinzer and McDonald have both devoted careers to seeing and celebrating these plains, garnering significant honors and awards along the way, neither had realized how much his work spoke to the other's. Now seventy-seven pairs of poems and color photographs testify to the kinship of poet, photographer, and all of us who inhabit their territory. Selected from hundreds of photographs and poems, these pairs show surprising harmony of vision and insights about the vast, wide plains, their dramatic colors, and the calm, vigorous people who thrive beneath their sprawling skies, accepting the risks and splendor of it all
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Subject Plains -- Texas -- Pictorial works
Country life -- Texas -- Pictorial works
Plains -- Texas -- Poetry
Country life -- Texas -- Poetry
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Country life
Plains
SUBJECT Texas -- Pictorial works
Texas -- History, Local -- Pictorial works
Texas -- Poetry
Subject Texas
Genre/Form Local history
Pictorial works
Poetry
Form Electronic book
Author Meinzer, Wyman
ISBN 1423762614
9781423762614
1281093238
9781281093233
Other Titles Great lonely places of the Texas plains