Texas in poetry 2

Billy Bob Hill

"Texas in Poetry presents a selection of Texas poems from the early days of the colony to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Hill includes such poets as Mirabeau B. Lamar, a Texas president and poetaster from the days of the Republic; Berta Harte Nance, author of the Centennial poem that begins "Other states were carved or born/But Texas grew from hide and horn" - lines that furnished at least one book title and occasioned a number of parodies. And, of course, one poem about Texas that is magnificent in its awfulness, "Lasca," with memorable lines like "Scratches don't count/In Texas down by the Rio Grande."". "But most of the poems in this volume are much superior to the representative early poems included. All the well-known poets in the state are included - writers like Walter McDonald and Betsy Feagan Colquitt and Vassar Miller - as well as newer writers. Nor has the...

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