Author: Walt McDonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781682831212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
A lifetime collection of poems by esteemed Texas literary voice Walt McDonald, as selected by the poet himself.
The Essential Walt Mcdonald
Author: Walt McDonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781682831212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
A lifetime collection of poems by esteemed Texas literary voice Walt McDonald, as selected by the poet himself.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781682831212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
A lifetime collection of poems by esteemed Texas literary voice Walt McDonald, as selected by the poet himself.
The Andrew Poems
Author: Shelly Wagner
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896723191
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
This is poetry about a parent losing a child -- and so much more. The author takes us on a journey through sorrow and love into healing and understanding.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896723191
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
This is poetry about a parent losing a child -- and so much more. The author takes us on a journey through sorrow and love into healing and understanding.
Your Blue and the Quiet Lament
Author: Lubna Safi
Publisher: Walt McDonald First-Book Poetr
ISBN: 9781682831397
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A meditation on grief, death, and distance.
Publisher: Walt McDonald First-Book Poetr
ISBN: 9781682831397
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A meditation on grief, death, and distance.
Walt Whitman, Philosopher Poet
Author: John W. McDonald
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786423889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Was Walt Whitman--celebrated poet of freedom and democracy--a determinist at heart? A close study of Leaves of Grass shows that Whitman consistently acknowledges the inevitability of all things. As John McDonald argues, this seeming contradiction lies at the heart of Whitman's poetry, a fact continually overlooked in the more than 100 years that critics have written about the poet and his magnum opus. This volume contains an extensive study of Walt Whitman's poetry that explores both Whitman's guiding philosophy and its uses to unlock meaning within Leaves of Grass. Beginning with a detailed explanation of determinism, the author examines Whitman's use of indirection, which the poet referred to at times as a game played to evade the reader's comprehension. The work seeks to define a philosophy which was, in the author's opinion, the most significant influence in Whitman's thought and in his art. Various poems are examined in depth, including Song of Myself, Passage to India and the particularly significant With Antecedents. Gathered here will be evidence from Whitman's poems and prose and from his notes and quoted remarks, enough evidence to show beyond doubt that determinism was indeed his most significant influence. An innovative look at one of America's greatest poets.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786423889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Was Walt Whitman--celebrated poet of freedom and democracy--a determinist at heart? A close study of Leaves of Grass shows that Whitman consistently acknowledges the inevitability of all things. As John McDonald argues, this seeming contradiction lies at the heart of Whitman's poetry, a fact continually overlooked in the more than 100 years that critics have written about the poet and his magnum opus. This volume contains an extensive study of Walt Whitman's poetry that explores both Whitman's guiding philosophy and its uses to unlock meaning within Leaves of Grass. Beginning with a detailed explanation of determinism, the author examines Whitman's use of indirection, which the poet referred to at times as a game played to evade the reader's comprehension. The work seeks to define a philosophy which was, in the author's opinion, the most significant influence in Whitman's thought and in his art. Various poems are examined in depth, including Song of Myself, Passage to India and the particularly significant With Antecedents. Gathered here will be evidence from Whitman's poems and prose and from his notes and quoted remarks, enough evidence to show beyond doubt that determinism was indeed his most significant influence. An innovative look at one of America's greatest poets.
The Lyme Letters
Author: C. R. Grimmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781682830758
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Lyme Letters is epistolary verse that spells out a memoir. R, a non-binary femme character, narrates their experience of disease and recovery through recurrent letters to doctors, pets, family members, lovers, and a ?Master.? R, in letter form and repurposed religious texts, also explores the paradoxical experiences of queer non-reproductivity, chronic illness and disability, and the healing that can be found in the liminal spaces between.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781682830758
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Lyme Letters is epistolary verse that spells out a memoir. R, a non-binary femme character, narrates their experience of disease and recovery through recurrent letters to doctors, pets, family members, lovers, and a ?Master.? R, in letter form and repurposed religious texts, also explores the paradoxical experiences of queer non-reproductivity, chronic illness and disability, and the healing that can be found in the liminal spaces between.
Great Lonely Places of the Texas Plains
Author: Walter McDonald
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896725065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Clarity, focus, and startling detail are the stuff of lasting images--in poetry or photography. Who better, then, to illuminate what would elude us than a native state photographer and native state poet laureate? 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. Together and on their own, these photos and poems astonish and delight, stagger and jostle, each resonating with texture and joy.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896725065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Clarity, focus, and startling detail are the stuff of lasting images--in poetry or photography. Who better, then, to illuminate what would elude us than a native state photographer and native state poet laureate? 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. Together and on their own, these photos and poems astonish and delight, stagger and jostle, each resonating with texture and joy.
Finding Freedom
Author: Ruby West Jackson
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870209957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
First published in 2007, the groundbreaking book Finding Freedom provided the first narrative account of the life of Joshua Glover, the freedom seeker who was famously broken out of jail by thousands of Wisconsin abolitionists in 1854. This paperback edition reframes Glover’s story with a new foreword from historian Christy Clark-Pujara. Employing original research, authors Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald chronicle Glover's days as an enslaved person in St. Louis, his violent capture and escape in Milwaukee, his journey on the Underground Railroad, and his thirty-three years of freedom in rural Canada. While the catalytic “Glover incident” captured national attention—pitting the state of Wisconsin against the Supreme Court and adding fuel to the pre–Civil War fire—the primary focus is on the ordinary citizens, both Black and white, with whom Joshua Glover interacted. A bittersweet story of bravery and compassion, Finding Freedom provides the first full picture of the man for whom so many fought and around whom so much history was made.
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870209957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
First published in 2007, the groundbreaking book Finding Freedom provided the first narrative account of the life of Joshua Glover, the freedom seeker who was famously broken out of jail by thousands of Wisconsin abolitionists in 1854. This paperback edition reframes Glover’s story with a new foreword from historian Christy Clark-Pujara. Employing original research, authors Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald chronicle Glover's days as an enslaved person in St. Louis, his violent capture and escape in Milwaukee, his journey on the Underground Railroad, and his thirty-three years of freedom in rural Canada. While the catalytic “Glover incident” captured national attention—pitting the state of Wisconsin against the Supreme Court and adding fuel to the pre–Civil War fire—the primary focus is on the ordinary citizens, both Black and white, with whom Joshua Glover interacted. A bittersweet story of bravery and compassion, Finding Freedom provides the first full picture of the man for whom so many fought and around whom so much history was made.
Poets Thinking
Author: Helen Vendler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044622
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044622
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.
Achieving Excellence in Dealer/Distributor Performance
Author:
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511901321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Achieving Excellence in Dealer/Distributor Performance offers in-depth management coaching in each of these areas -- machinery sales, rentals, service, parts and customer training and retention, and is filled with practical programs to strengthen and increase profitability, cash flow and customer retention.Improving an industrial equipment business has four requirements:1. Measure the dealership against proper benchmark metrics. These 48 Critical Profit Variables are covered in detail in this text.2. Determine where you stand, find the gaps in your performance, Comprehensive self-assessment tools are provided.3. Identify "best practices" of high-performance dealers. Recommendations are made for each business area.4. Energize your company into a continuous improvement program. Numerous team discussion projects are included in the text. McDonald Group Institute for Dealer Development founder and author Walter McDonald has based this text on 40 years' experience in dealer management consulting and over 2,650 dealer management workshops.In many ways, this book is a written reflection of Walt's live dealer management seminars. If you are familiar with his work, you know that he focuses on the real value generating activities of the business. He is in the trenches with the dealer managers and field sales and aftermarket reps who create real value and make it happen every hour of every day in the dealership.McDonald's dealer management guide is an absorbing refresher for informed senior executives and a highly useful handbook for those future dealer leaders and related OEM managers on the way up.This dealer guide actually contains two books, one book with benchmarks and advice on what the numbers mean and the second book on how to improve the numbers. This manuscript could have been subtitled: 'real metrics, real solutions.' The dealer/distributor can analyze its business operations through the performance yardsticks presented in this timely publication.By Nick W. McGaughey, CPA, "This dealer text is very well thought out, well written, easy to read and follow. I believe it will be very beneficial to dealer principals and operating managers.By Dr. Shankar Basu, CEO Toyota-Lift of Los AngelesI particularly like the section 'How This Book Can Help' included early on in the work to help the user focus in on their primary trouble spot. I also appreciate the inclusion of the page on 'Terminology.' I think it does a good job of setting up the frame of reference for the user. By Jim JohnsonFormer Dealer Development ManagerNavistarI think dealer principals, operations and general managers, and sales, parts, service and rentals could all use this book. I can see value in taking this as a group reading project in our dealership and having weekly discussions on certain chapters.By George M. KeenOperations ManagerNew Virginia TractorI very much believe this will be a very beneficial tool to any dealership wanting to set achievement points to their success in all areas of operation.By Mike O'DonnellPresident & CEOStuart Tank SalesThis type of manual for a Dealer Principal is new and I think it is needed.By Bill L. RyanPresidentLiftOneEverything in this book is on target and relevant to running a successful dealership in today's world.By John ShearerGeneral Manager Construction and Forestry4Rivers EquipmentThis book has given me the opportunity to reflect, review and compare our current processes to the industry specific benchmarks that are discussed in the book. This effort has challenged me to go back to the basics of good business and review those (points) with others in our organization. By Stuart Thompson PresidentGarrison Toyota Material HandlingThis is a new manager training tool. I think new line managers should be reading this book so they understand how a Dealer Principal thinks when he looks at his business metrics and challenges.By Joe Verzino PresidentLifTech
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511901321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Achieving Excellence in Dealer/Distributor Performance offers in-depth management coaching in each of these areas -- machinery sales, rentals, service, parts and customer training and retention, and is filled with practical programs to strengthen and increase profitability, cash flow and customer retention.Improving an industrial equipment business has four requirements:1. Measure the dealership against proper benchmark metrics. These 48 Critical Profit Variables are covered in detail in this text.2. Determine where you stand, find the gaps in your performance, Comprehensive self-assessment tools are provided.3. Identify "best practices" of high-performance dealers. Recommendations are made for each business area.4. Energize your company into a continuous improvement program. Numerous team discussion projects are included in the text. McDonald Group Institute for Dealer Development founder and author Walter McDonald has based this text on 40 years' experience in dealer management consulting and over 2,650 dealer management workshops.In many ways, this book is a written reflection of Walt's live dealer management seminars. If you are familiar with his work, you know that he focuses on the real value generating activities of the business. He is in the trenches with the dealer managers and field sales and aftermarket reps who create real value and make it happen every hour of every day in the dealership.McDonald's dealer management guide is an absorbing refresher for informed senior executives and a highly useful handbook for those future dealer leaders and related OEM managers on the way up.This dealer guide actually contains two books, one book with benchmarks and advice on what the numbers mean and the second book on how to improve the numbers. This manuscript could have been subtitled: 'real metrics, real solutions.' The dealer/distributor can analyze its business operations through the performance yardsticks presented in this timely publication.By Nick W. McGaughey, CPA, "This dealer text is very well thought out, well written, easy to read and follow. I believe it will be very beneficial to dealer principals and operating managers.By Dr. Shankar Basu, CEO Toyota-Lift of Los AngelesI particularly like the section 'How This Book Can Help' included early on in the work to help the user focus in on their primary trouble spot. I also appreciate the inclusion of the page on 'Terminology.' I think it does a good job of setting up the frame of reference for the user. By Jim JohnsonFormer Dealer Development ManagerNavistarI think dealer principals, operations and general managers, and sales, parts, service and rentals could all use this book. I can see value in taking this as a group reading project in our dealership and having weekly discussions on certain chapters.By George M. KeenOperations ManagerNew Virginia TractorI very much believe this will be a very beneficial tool to any dealership wanting to set achievement points to their success in all areas of operation.By Mike O'DonnellPresident & CEOStuart Tank SalesThis type of manual for a Dealer Principal is new and I think it is needed.By Bill L. RyanPresidentLiftOneEverything in this book is on target and relevant to running a successful dealership in today's world.By John ShearerGeneral Manager Construction and Forestry4Rivers EquipmentThis book has given me the opportunity to reflect, review and compare our current processes to the industry specific benchmarks that are discussed in the book. This effort has challenged me to go back to the basics of good business and review those (points) with others in our organization. By Stuart Thompson PresidentGarrison Toyota Material HandlingThis is a new manager training tool. I think new line managers should be reading this book so they understand how a Dealer Principal thinks when he looks at his business metrics and challenges.By Joe Verzino PresidentLifTech
When God Isn't There
Author: David Bowden
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0718077687
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Why does God feel so far away? Why is my worship so empty? Has God left me? David Bowden knows these questions firsthand, having wrestled for years with God’s apparent absence and studying what the Bible says about it. In this new book, Bowden tackles the subject head-on, finding the key to understanding it in the Bible’s depiction of a God who is infinitely far from us, free to move where he wants, but who chooses to come near in the person of Jesus. A resource of encouragement for those who struggle with feeling God’s absence and a wake-up call to those who take God’s presence for granted, When God Isn’t There will forever change your understanding of why God sometimes seems to vanish and how he can be found again. Praise for the work of David Bowden “Awesome and inspiring.”—Blake Mycoskie, Founder and Chief Shoe Giver at TOMS Shoes “David brings a fresh, engaging and highly impactful approach to Scripture. His passion for the Word is both contagious and inspirational.” —Roy Peterson, President of American Bible Society
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0718077687
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Why does God feel so far away? Why is my worship so empty? Has God left me? David Bowden knows these questions firsthand, having wrestled for years with God’s apparent absence and studying what the Bible says about it. In this new book, Bowden tackles the subject head-on, finding the key to understanding it in the Bible’s depiction of a God who is infinitely far from us, free to move where he wants, but who chooses to come near in the person of Jesus. A resource of encouragement for those who struggle with feeling God’s absence and a wake-up call to those who take God’s presence for granted, When God Isn’t There will forever change your understanding of why God sometimes seems to vanish and how he can be found again. Praise for the work of David Bowden “Awesome and inspiring.”—Blake Mycoskie, Founder and Chief Shoe Giver at TOMS Shoes “David brings a fresh, engaging and highly impactful approach to Scripture. His passion for the Word is both contagious and inspirational.” —Roy Peterson, President of American Bible Society