Dave Oliphant: 3 books
by Dave Oliphant
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Jazz is one of America's greatest gifts to the arts, and native Texas musicians have played a major role in the development of jazz from its birth in ragtime, blues, and boogie-woogie to its most contemporary manifestation in free jazz. Dave Oliphant began the fascinating story of Texans and jazz in...
by Dave Oliphant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Dave Oliphant is widely considered the finest poetry critic ever produced by Texas. This volume brings together some 40 years of essays, articles, and reviews on the topic of Texas poetry -- its history as well as addressing individual poets and their books. Only one other book in the last two decades...
by Dave Oliphant
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The first major autobiography by a Texas poet, this noteworthy account traces the life and times of a poet, publisher, critic, and teacher from his childhood to the present day. This remarkable life is examined through the works it produced-25 books in the fields of poetry, fiction, translation, jazz...