Austin: a Poem
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"Written with knowledge and sympathy, the poem contains a delightful tangle of details. Lyndon Johnson, Elisabet Ney, Peter Flawn, Custer, O. Henry, and Joseph Jones (the sage of Waller Creek)--public figures and personal friends interact in the city of Oliphant's imagination....A lengthy proem, set at the grave of Stephen F. Austin in the State Cemetery, contains a brilliant passage about Austin in prison.... The oblique narration is kept on track with masterful transitions.... T]he language is carefully crafted, with interesting and often beautiful sound-play in virtually every line."
--John Herndon, Austin American-Statesman
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Oliphant's new book-length poem...is an attempt, in Texas terms, to recreate a work along the lines of William Carlos Williams' Paterson, that is, a poem that relates the history of a place from the ground up from origins to now.... Serious readers of serious poetry will find this book worth their attention. They will rediscover too, as I did, the seminal importance of Stephen F. Austin in the visionary history of the state.
--Don Graham, Dallas Times Herald
