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In their own ways, the stories in TexasSoundtrack are as musical as the songs thatinspired them, each with its own rhythm, itsown beat, its own insights into Texas peopleand Texas places. They resonate in the mindlong after you read them.

My Many Sisters is the remarkable journal of a young woman who had the vision and strength of character to leave the comforts of her home and travel to another country to volunteer with a home for the aged. Caroline Watanabe, a Japanese American girl, at age 18 sought a way to consolidate her understanding of Mandarin Chinese and to give back to the world for allowing her a privileged life. She decided it best for her to go to Taiwan to help w...

Human Resources is a collection of brutal honesty shot through with longing.Waters keeps a close eye fixed on the personal while his poems wrestle history, faith, the darkness and absurdity of the human condition. Waters is a wonderfulpoet-at turns funny and heartbreaking-and certainly one to watch for thelong haul.

Nearer James Lee Burke than Joe Lansdale, Sanderson's Dolph's Team is part border-town mystery and part road trip, reminiscent of Lonesome Dove. Dolph's crew doesn't always follow the letter of the law in a world where pre-paid funerals are no joke. As Dolph says, "once you give up decency and honesty, " you're on your own, and all of the beer-guzzling and bull-shooting won't protect his team from the harsh reality of modern Texas.

Agave offers a mixture of graphic art, essays, short stories, poems, songs, and recipes that focus in some way on tequila. The writing ranges from the comical to the touchingly serious, and contributors include several nationally-known figures. The book is designed to be a conversational piece at parties and a coffee-table showpiece for anyone interested in both tequila and art.

In this work you'll find the past and the present, the grumpy and the funny, the family and the country, and the political and the personal-all tied together by a search for the heart in the heart, the mystical center that binds us to the sacred in each other and the sacred above and around. Like the work of Jack Kerouac, Taylor's book moves beyond the grand secular tradition of modern writing into the unknowable landscapes of the spiritual.

The scene is Houston in the early 70's, and driving the night shift till dawn a young cabby has abandoned a professional career and all the education behind it in search of life in the raw, which he discovers aplenty over the course of these fifteen stories, encountering a degree of suffering and pain, barbarity and beauty, and wisdom, in the people and situations he meets, that far exceeds anything he has ever experienced.

Jan Seale's poetry is both beautifully witty and serious, often ingeniously weaving contemporary life with the mythical, the eternal with the transient, joy with an awareness of loss. These poems are documentations honoring the earth and family in memory and moment. Each poem at the heart is of the heart, its attachments and joys, its griefs and serenities.

You don't have to love or even like cats to treasure this amazing book. Nothing quite like it has ever been pawed down on paper. Chuck Taylor's One True Cat is an exciting roller coaster ride through a life spent around cats inside categories that's both catastrophic and cathartic. It is a myriad look at cat behavior as well as an exploration of how humans and cats acquire skills and learn how to interact and love.

Dana Wildsmith's Jumping portrays with great skill and finesse the collision of the two worlds of a Georgia school teacher and a small charming Mexican boy. To read Jumping is to experience a remarkable work of fiction with, in the best sense of the phrase, the ring of truth

Wherever Robin McCorquodale turns her eye she finds a world awash in color and texture which she then hands to us inside the basket woven by her surprising, resonant imagery.

After the electricity went off in the United States, the country suffered a great fire, and survivors found themselves with no workable economy or unified government, some few enterprising merchants traveled about scavenging and trading for leftovers from the time before the great catastrophes. Master story teller Dan Williams tells about two such merchants as they struggle with bandits, religious zealots, and armed militias who proclaim their...

The Juggler of the book's title is at once a literal image-a performer, a busker you might say-and a metaphor shared among many of the poems that describe scenes we understand far too well. The book draws much of its power from this shared metaphor and from Alan Gann's sharing his experiences, letting us see with him along his journey-and, then, finally, letting us all ask important and retrospective questions.

Fox's poetic canvas is vast, deftly painted with an array of dazzling colors. The subjects of her poems are as intriguingly eclectic as her spot-on allusions. She writes of family, travel, the joy of perception and reflection, the arts, and the facets of her Jewish heritage, and she does so with an ease of diction which belies the consummate poetic skill subtly manifest in each and every poem, ..".refracting / light into spectral colors.

The strongest witness poetry can make is to the personal life-and when that personal life is extraordinary, then extraordinary poems can come forth. Such is the life of Brian Thornton, who as a young man lost most of his sight, who has performed in a carnival sideshow, and who has lived and traveled in the mideast during the joy and violence of the Arab Spring. And 'Places We Were Never Meant To See' traces these movements of a life, in carefu...

This is a fun-to-read family history of the Craven family. Dr. Gail Craven Fail makes use of her training in methods of scientific research to examine a wide range of Craven family matters. You will be delighted with her lively writing about elements from the Celtic era to today, from the Domesday Book to genealogical studies, from Devonshire to dogtrot, from Robert de Craven to Gorman Craven, and much more.

Dan Williams, following the success of his first novel, 'The Lords of Leftovers, ' offers the world a new, first-rate story in 'The Lords of Absence, ' an adventure tale of the near future. In a broken world struggling to put itself back together after the Fires, the two main characters, Trader and Joe Cruz, set off looking for two small boys who suddenly disappeared one morning. In their search to find the lost boys, they encounter murderous ...

Part family memoir and part history of Swedes coming to America, this genealogical study focuses on the branch of the Carlson family that moved to Texas from Sweden in the nineteenth century. It includes histories of the Engblom and Westling families as they intermarry with the Carlsons. The book contains many nineteenth and twentieth-century photographs of members of all three families as well as color photographs taken more recently. It also...

Chera Hammons' 'Recycled Explosions' places us in an elusive and at times frightening narrative, moving along Judas-filled landscapes where we may or may not "find a way back to what [we] know." Perhaps whatever inheritance we once had-or believed in-is gone. Still, Hammons "keeps vigil." Her poems remind us that, despite the times we live in, we seek to be blessed, even if the angel we wrestle turns out to be only a "reflection" of ourselves.

Originally published: Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966.