20th Century

All Occasions

Name: All Occasions
Brand: University of Notre Dame Press
SKU: 9780268020064
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ISBN: 9780268020064

Contributor(s): McDonald, Walt Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780268020064
Publisher	University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date	October 2000
Language	English
MRP	£21.99 GBP
Page count	118
Item weight	35 g

Award-winning poet Walt McDonald is well known for the skill with which he is able to transform ordinary language into poetry. In this, his eighteenth volume of poetry, McDonald returns to familiar explorations of his native Texas landscape and the struggle to integrate wartime experiences into the rest of life.

The 65 poems in All Occasions are about a boy who later flies as an Air Force pilot, who marries a woman so lovely and loving he's stunned, who goes home after a war and discovers with friends and family what John Donne meant in one Christmas sermon: "All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons." The poems celebrate the wonder and need of all occasions, the heartache and longing and joy of being alone or loved--in war, in a cockpit at 40,000 feet, riding the range on a mustang, or in the arms of family.

In "Carrion Comfort," Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote about "That night, that year / of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) / my God." In Part 2 of All Occasions, McDonald experiences that struggle in Vietnam and discovers over swift decades how deeply he needs friends, family, and God.

Each individual poem is finely crafted, and together they comprise a powerful narrative. Masterful and wise, All Occasions is Walt McDonald at his best and his most affirmative.

All Occasions

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McDonald, Walt Author

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