Vliet, R.G.

Water & Stone: Poems.

First Edition. New York, Random House, 1980. 16 cm x 24 cm. 100 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Dustjacket in near fine condition. Volume in fine condition.

Includes for example the following poems: Emily Dickinson / The Peaceable Kingdom / Lake Zempoala / After the Lone Ranger Died / For Sex / Salvos for Albertito / Muscovy Duck / penny Balad of Elvious Ricks / To Die by Daylight / Jet Plane / Dogs Countless as Stars etc.

″Poet, novelist, playwright, and short story writer Russell G. Vliet was born in Chicago, on November 4, 1929. His father was a Naval medical officer, and the family lived in many parts of the U.S., largely in the south, and in American Samoa. R.G. Vliet attended Central High School (Class of 1948) in Texas City, Texas, just south of Houston, and attended Southwest Texas State University beginning in the Fall of 1948, where he wrote and acted in his own plays. While at the university, he met Vida Ann Rutherford, of New Braunfels, a fellow Speech and Drama major. The couple married on March 1, 1951, and had a daughter, Brooke, in 1957. The Vliets received their B.S. degrees in Education in 1952, and R.G. Vliet went on to complete his Master’s at SWT with the thesis, “Experiment in lyric and dramatic verse”, in 1953. Vliet then taught English for one year at Brown’s School in Austin, and one year at Rock Springs High School in the Texas Hill Country. Even though many of Vliet’s novels, plays, and poems would be set in Texas and would win awards from Texan literary institutions, Vliet would not live in Texas again, except for a six-month period near the end of his life, in 1983.” (University of Texas Library)

• Keywords: 20th Century Literature · American Literature · Poetry
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394506170
• Inventory Number: 72260AB

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