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Bert Almon's poems are centred in local, apparently unremarkable moments which are addressed with such a fine, ironic eye that they suddenly yield their innate comedy, tragedy, paradox, tenderness. Poetry, he has said, is a message slipped under the door/ You don't even have to read it/ It wants to tell you about danger/ life and death and good parties. In this, his seventh collection, Almon's locales range from the Texas of his youth to the p...

The poems in A Ghost in Waterloo Station take the everyday world as their point of departure, but the place of arrival is never the shore you started from. Vivid invocations and meditations on childhood, art, and travel bring together places and people as likeable and unexpected as the wry poetic sensibility recommending them to our attention. Greece is a country where clarity / is inescapable unless it forces your lids shut. Swallows enter th...

This critical biography of novelist William Humphrey (1924- 1997) draws on the author's personal papers and letters to examine the sources of his work. Almon also addresses Humphrey's critique of sentimentalized mythmaking, a thread running through much of his work, and his much-frustrated efforts to be properly understood by readers. Annotation c.

A. C. Greene claimed he wrote his autobiographical A Personal Country "to find out, from one life in one region, if all of us are not gifted from the soil whence we sprang, seeded by the people, and watered by the times."Bert Almon suggests that Texas autobiography reveals as much about the state as it does the writer, recording geography and history, and economic, social, and religious practices. A sense of place distinguishes Texas autobiogr...