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Wolfe | Being Ninety:

Old West Monsters & A Texas Poet's Life

BY DONALD MACE WILLIAMS 


In this bold adaptation of Beowulf, Donald Mace Williams reimagines the epic tale in the setting of the Old West, transforming it into a powerful meditation on humanity’s encroachment upon the natural world.

This imaginative retelling unfolds on an isolated ranch in late nineteenth-century Texas, where a mysterious and beguiling creature is discovered to have slaughtered cattle—and a laborer. The fate of the town's locals is placed upon an outsider: a calm, confident young man named Billy Wolfe.
 

In the work's second act, Being Ninety, Williams recounts his more than nine decades as a child of the Depression, a poet, journalist, professor, classically trained singer, husband of 62 years, father, and lifelong wanderer. Williams’s life reads like a picaresque novel of Texas and many points farther afield.

979-8-9864078-2-1 (paper)

979-8-9864078-4-5 (ebook)

$16.95

Poetry/Memoir

168 pp

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Donald Mace Williams

Donald Mace Williams is a former writing coach for The Wichita Eagle and reporter and editor for papers that include Newsday, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Amarillo Globe-News. He has taught English and journalism at West Texas State and Baylor Universities. Williams holds a doctorate in English from the University of Texas. He lives in Canyon, Texas, and his poetry has been published widely in journals in the U.S.

REVIEWS | Wolfe - Being Ninety

Rattle | Timothy Green (Editor)

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author | Joe Holley

National Endowment for the Arts | Dana Gioia

"Donald Mace Williams' Wolfe is a flawless epic, and in turning the legend of Beowulf into a critique of man's encroachment on nature, it has a chance at ringing the bell of the current zeitgeist."

National Endowment for the Arts | Dana Gioia

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author | Joe Holley

National Endowment for the Arts | Dana Gioia

"It is a fine thing to see Donald Mace Williams's superb narrative poem, Wolfe, reprinted. Set on an isolated ranch toward the end of the Frontier days, Wolfe is part-Western, part-horror tale, but all epic in its imagination. This new book restores this fascinating work to the canon of contemporary narrative verse."

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author | Joe Holley

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author | Joe Holley

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author | Joe Holley

"Donald Mace Williams proves to be both an able interpreter and a congenial guide to a place we're all destined to inhabit, if we're fortunate. For the young and the middle-aged, for those beyond middle age, Being Ninety is a welcome gift."

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