Winning the Dust Bowl

Winning the Dust Bowl
Author :
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 252
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0816520712
ISBN-13 : 9780816520718
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Winning the Dust Bowl by : Carter Revard

Download or read book Winning the Dust Bowl written by Carter Revard and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bootleggers and bankrobbers in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. Proctors and punters at Oxford. Activists and agitators of the American Indian Movement. Carter Revard has known them all, and in this book— a memoir in prose and poetry— he interweaves the many threads of his life as only a gifted writer can. Winning the Dust Bowl traces Revard's development from a poor Oklahoma farm boy during the depths of the Depression to a respected medieval scholar and outstanding Native American poet. It recounts his search for a personal and poetic voice, his struggle to keep and expand it, and his attempt to find ways of reconciling the disparate influences of his life. In these pages, readers will find poems both new and familiar: poems of family and home, of loss and survival. In linking— what he calls "cocooning"— essays, Revard shares what he has noticed about how poems come into being, how changes in style arise from changes in life, and how language can be used to deal with one's relationship to the world. He also includes stories of Poncas and Osages, powwow stories and Oxford fables, and a gallery of photographs that capture images of his past. Revard has crafted a book about poetry and authorship, about American history and culture. Lyrical in one breath and stingingly political in the next, he calls on his mastery of language to show us the undying connection between literature and life.


Winning the Dust Bowl Related Books

Winning the Dust Bowl
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Carter Revard
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-01 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bootleggers and bankrobbers in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. Proctors and punters at Oxford. Activists and agitators of the American Indian Movement. Carter Revard ha
Dust Bowl
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Donald Worster
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982 - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of t
Farming the Dust Bowl
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Lawrence Svobida
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-04-14 - Publisher: University Press of Kansas

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is a powerful original account of one man's efforts to raise wheat on his farm in Meade County, Kansas, during the 1930s. Lawrence Svobida tells of farmers
The Dust Bowl
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Mathew Paul Bonnifield
Categories: Agriculture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Dust Bowl
Language: en
Pages: 40
Authors: David Booth
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A young boy listens to his grandfather's story of farm life during the Dust Bowl years.