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Generations of Texas Poets

Product Description: 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...read more

By Dave Oliphant

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9781609404819 | Wings Pr, October 1, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Dave Oliphant is widely considered the finest poetry critic ever produced by Texas.

Kd: A Jazz Biography

Product Description: Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorhamâs recordings in Denmark, this book-length poem traces the story of the Texanâs career performing with the greatest musicians of the bop and hard bop eras in jazz historyâincluding Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane...read more

By Dave Oliphant

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9780916727956 | Wings Pr, April 1, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham.

Harbingers of Books to Come: A Texan's Literary Life

Product Description: 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 producedâ25 books in the fields of poetry, fiction, translation, jazz history, and book reviewing...read more

By Dave Oliphant

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9780916727604 | Wings Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.

After-dinner Declarations

Product Description: Poetry. Latin American Studies. Bilingual edition. Translated from the Spanish by Dave Oliphant. In the 235 poems that make up these collected declarations, renowned Chilean "antipoet" Nicanor Parra provides an entertaining and enlightening perspective on the modern world...read more

By Dave Oliphant (trans)

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Hardcover:

9780924047626 | Host Pubns, May 15, 2009, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

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9780924047633 | Host Pubns, December 1, 2008, cover price $25.00

Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State

Product Description: This is a collection of 16 essays that explore the connections between Texas musicians and jazz. It celebrates the contributions of such vital figures as Eddie Durham, Kenny Dorham, Leo Wright, and Ornette Coleman.

By Dave Oliphant

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Hardcover:

9780292714953 | Univ of Texas Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This is a collection of 16 essays that explore the connections between Texas musicians and jazz.

Paperback:

9780292714960 | Univ of Texas Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $22.95

Love Hound

Product Description: Chilean poet Oliver Weldenâs volume Love Hound, written over 30 years ago and highly praised at the time, disappeared during the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and has recently resurfaced with power and artistry undamaged by the passage of time...read more

By Dave Oliphant (trans) and Oliver Welden

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9780924047312 | Bilingual edition (Host Pubns, October 15, 2006), cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Chilean poet Oliver Weldenâs volume Love Hound, written over 30 years ago and highly praised at the time, disappeared during the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and has recently resurfaced with power and artistry undamaged by the passage of time.

Backtracking

Product Description: Poetry. Dave Oliphant's BACKTRACKING explores the influences and inspirations that shaped the work of this prolific American poet. The impact of Spanish culture on the poet is featured at the beginning of the collection, while his wife serves as the inspiration for an ongoing series of poems that celebrates the passion and mystery of their 37-year love affair...read more

By Dave Oliphant

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9780924047244 | Host Pubns, February 28, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

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9780924047251 | Host Pubns, February 28, 2005, cover price $15.00

The Early Swing Era, 1930 to 1941

Product Description: The early swing era of jazz, from 1930 to 1941, represents both an extension of developments of the previous decade and an introduction of new tendencies that influenced subsequent periods of jazz history. Major big bands and individual artists established important styles that brought wide popularity to the music, while small groups created innovative approaches that determined the directions jazz would take in the years to come...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dave Oliphant

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9780313305351 | Greenwood Pub Group, May 30, 2002, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The early swing era of jazz, from 1930 to 1941, represents both an extension of developments of the previous decade and an introduction of new tendencies that influenced subsequent periods of jazz history.

Memories of Texas Towns & Cities

Product Description: Poetry. Renowned American poet Dave Oliphant celebrates his home state in this unique collection of poetry. Oliphant consciously began this series in the autumn of 1974 and finished it twenty-five years later in the fall of 1999. Containing thirty sections, each devoted to a different town, MEMORIES OF TEXAS TOWNS & CITIES brings together a wide ranging picture of Texas through the places, people, and poetry one man remembers and celebrates...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dave Oliphant

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9780924047190 | Host Pubns, October 1, 2000, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

Figures of Speech

Product Description: A bilingual edition of the poety of Enrique Lihn one of Chile's most respected poets with an introduction by the translator, Dave Oliphant. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Enrique Linh and Dave Oliphant (trans)

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9780924047176 | Host Pubns, April 30, 2000, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A bilingual edition of the poety of Enrique Lihn one of Chile's most respected poets with an introduction by the translator, Dave Oliphant.

A Bilingual Anthology of Spanish Poetry: The Generation of 1970

Product Description: This anthology proceeds chronologically with bilingual renditions of several poems by each of the 30 poets featured. The translations reproduce the spirit of historical rupture, the self-deceptions of postmodern societies, and testimony of what it means to be living in a post-Franco era...read more

By Miguel Casado (editor), Dave Oliphant (editor) and Luis A. Ramos-Garcia (editor)

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9780773484351 | Edwin Mellen Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: This anthology proceeds chronologically with bilingual renditions of several poems by each of the 30 poets featured.

Texan Jazz

Product Description: Texas musicians and jazz share a history that goes all the way back to the origins of jazz in ragtime, blues, and boogie-woogie. Texans have left their mark on all of jazz's major movements, including hot jazz, swing, bebop, the birth of the cool, hard bop, and free jazz...read more

By Dave Oliphant

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9780292760448 | Univ of Texas Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Texas musicians and jazz share a history that goes all the way back to the origins of jazz in ragtime, blues, and boogie-woogie.

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9780292760455 | Univ of Texas Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $44.95

The Bebop Revolution in Words and Music

By Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (corporate author), Dave Oliphant (editor) and Dave Olipht (editor)

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9780879591311 | Harry Ransom Humanities, October 1, 1994, cover price $20.00

Twentieth-Century American Playwrights: Views of a Changing Culture

Product Description: Book by Henderson, Cathy, Oliphant, Dave

By Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (corporate author), Cathy Henderson and Dave Oliphant

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9780879591342 | Harry Ransom Humanities, September 1, 1994, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Book by Henderson, Cathy, Oliphant, Dave

Rossetti to Sexton: Six Women Poets at Texas

By Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (corporate author) and Dave Oliphant (editor)

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9780879591274 | Harry Ransom Humanities, December 1, 1992, cover price $20.00

Nahuatl to Rayuela: The Latin American Collection at Texas

By Dave Oliphant (editor)

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9780879591281 | Harry Ransom Humanities, May 1, 1992, cover price $15.00

New Directions in Textual Studies

By Larry Carver (editor) and Dave Oliphant (editor)

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9780879591113 | Harry Ransom Humanities, June 1, 1990, cover price $20.00

Perspectives on Australia: Essays on Australiana in the Collections of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

By Dave Oliphant (editor)

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9780879591083 | Univ of Texas Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $18.95

Hopkins Lives: An Exhibition and Catalogue

By Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (corporate author), Dave Oliphant (editor), Carl Stutton (editor) and Carl Sutton (editor)

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9780879591106 | Harry Ransom Humanities, June 1, 1989, cover price $25.00

Conservation and Preservation of Humanities Research Collections Essays on Treatment and Care of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Photography, and Art on pape

By Dave Oliphant

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9780879591090 | Harry Ransom Humanities, June 1, 1989, cover price $20.00

Maria's Poems

By Dave Oliphant

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Hardcover:

9780933384187 | Prickly Pear Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $13.95

Paperback:

9780933384170 | Prickly Pear Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $9.95

Lawrence, Jarry, Zukofsky: A Triptych

Product Description: Lawrence, Jarry, Zukofsky: A Triptych, by Oliphant, Dave And Gena Dagel

By Gena Dagel and Dave Oliphant

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9780879591069 | Harry Ransom Humanities, June 1, 1987, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Lawrence, Jarry, Zukofsky: A Triptych, by Oliphant, Dave And Gena Dagel

Perspectives on Music: Essays on Collections at the Humanities Research Center