R. W. Haynes

Broschiertes Buch

The Deadly Shadow of the Wall

Poems

Beschreibung

The Laredo of R. W. Haynes' poetry is a troubled ground, simultaneously at the border of Texas and Mexico and the divide between the mythic and mundane, godly and profane. Sometimes the frustration with mindlessness and delusion rises like a horrible fever. But just in time music, humor, and a dog who knows better arrive to enliven the lonely byways. In those moments, when wandering academics disturb the dust of dead cowboys and avaricious Spaniards, a spirit awakens even in the ludicrous. Best of all, in this collection Haynes playfully wrestles with the discipline of the sonnet and formal verse, both paying homage to tradition and infusing it with a colloquial voice uniquely his own. -Gerald C. Wood is the author of Horton Foote and the Theater of Intimacy, casebooks on Foote and Neil LaBute, and Conor McPherson: Imagining Mischief. He also wrote Smoky Joe Wood: The Biography of a Baseball Legend. Wood is Emeritus Professor of English at Carson-Newman University.

Autor

R. W. Haynes, Professor of English at Texas A&M International University, has published poetry in many journals in the United States and in other countries. As an academic scholar, he specializes in British Renaissance literature, and he has also taught extensively in such areas as medieval thought, Southern literature, classical poetry, and writing. Since 1992, he has offered regular graduate and undergraduate courses in Shakespeare, as well as seminars in Ibsen, Chaucer, Spenser, rhetoric, and other topics. In 2004, Haynes met Texas playwright/screenwriter Horton Foote and has since become a leading scholar of that author's remarkable oeuvre, publishing a book on Foote's plays in 2010 and editing a collection of essays on his works in 2016. Haynes also writes plays and fiction. In 2016, he received the SCMLA Poetry Award ($500) at the South Central Modern Language Association Conference. In 2019, two collections of his poetry were published, Laredo Light (Cyberwit) and Let the Whales Escape (Finishing Line Press).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 120g
• ISBN-13: 9798888380291
• Artikelnr.: 66496376