Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
5-1-2002
Abstract
Carter Revard says of Winning the Dust Bowl, "I've made this a home of new and selected poems, and put a meadow around it of history and autobiography, by looking out from these poems at the people, places and happenings from 1931 to the present." The vast meadow of memories allows his poems to sing more clearly.
Thirty-eight chapters surround forty-four poems in various forms, from the Old English riddle to free verse. His songs and metaphors range across time and place. Having drunk from the springs of the Greek gods and muses, Revard writes "To the Muse, in Oklahoma," remembering the springs that flowed into the Buck Creek valley of his childhood where he found his voice.
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Published in Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2 (Spring 2002). Published by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Copyright © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies. Used by permission.