In her brief introduction to Texas, Being, poet and Trinity University professor Jenny Browne writes, “Good poems are always about more than one thing.” This multiplicity also applies to Texas as a state. It’s a place often pigeonholed by outsiders as homogenous: they might believe it’s all dust and desert, that every citizen is a conservative Republican, that every Texan has been to a rodeo. And so it’s refreshing that these poems, published this month by Trinity University Press, are by poets from so many different backgrounds; they’re born-and-raised and Texpats and visitors and immigrants experiencing the complicated and “beautiful and brutal” Lone Star State.The 47 poems in the collection were written across centuries, from the mid-nineteenth to present day. Notably, there’s an excerpt of…
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