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Dave Oliphant
Summing Up is a new and collected manuscript of Dave Oliphant's poetry spanning his entire career from the 1959 to today. Oliphant is a translator, English professor, and world traveler…
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In the tradition of literary pilgrimages, the one is this book is both physical and spiritual. Dave Oliphant moves us around West, Central, and East Texas in poems named after…
The lives and careers of jazz musicians from Texas.
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Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorham’s recordings in Denmark, this book-length poem…
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Hallazgo y traduccion de poesia chilena es una coleccion de escrituras que traza mas de cincuenta anos de la carrera de Dave Oliphant, aficionado y traductor de la gran tradicion…
Dave Oliphant’s thirteenth book of poetry, The Cowtown Circle, is divided into six sections, moving from an eclectic gathering of poems devoted to nature, topical issues, and the imprisonment of…
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…
A book forty-one years in the making, written between 1975 and 2016, Dave Oliphant’s Maria’s Book presents what Douglas Flaherty has called a delicately passionate record of an internationally conspired…
With these poems devoted to jazz, Dave Oliphant offers a testament to the variety and significance of the art form and its artists. These poems are an attempt to pay…
The book-length poem makes Austin, Texas, come alive-all the city, past and present, memory and reality.
This book-length poetic biography traces the story of musician Kenny Dorham’s career performing with the greatest legends of jazz history’s bop and hard bop eras-including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud…
In this book of poetry, Dave Oliphant examines the Lone Star State from border to border focusing on its cities, its towns-and, especially-on its people.
The travel memoirs of poet Dave Oliphant, adventuring through the US, Spain, England, and Scotland. Oliphant keeps his poetic sensibility in focus reflecting on culture, history, language–and life.
The travel memoirs of poet Dave Oliphant, adventuring through Brazil and Chile, containing a new series of sonnets, a collection of reflections of a life in and in-between languages, cultures…
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…
