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  • Dave Back in Austin, 1976
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Hello & Welcome to this Virtual Museum Experience. Come on

make yourself comfortable; there is Much to read/see/&More

This Texas-sized website is a celebration and a collection of all works by Texan Dave Oliphant, author, editor, poet, translator, and writer. 

Dave’s newest books, travels of a texas poet

Travel alongside this Texas writer as he explores countries on three continents. In 1988, Dave and his family traveled from Texas to east-coast States and back through the South. In 1989, as part of a program for teachers of Spanish, Dave visited Spain and met a number of poets and collected their poetry for a bilingual anthology published the following year. In 1996 and in 1997, he and his wife María visited England and Scotland, in 1999 Brazil, and between 2006 and 2011, her native Chile. In 2006, Dave taught a course on Chilean poetry for a group of University of Texas students who traveled with him and María to her land of celebrated poets, where the students met the world-renowned antipoet Nicanor Parra, as well as younger poets and literary critics. On their visit in 2009, Dave and María made a special trip within Chile to the archipelago of Chiloé, where he met a number of Chilote poets. As in all Dave’s travels, he kept notes on his meetings with writers, his visits to museums, and his experiences of the places and their cultures. Rather than a travelogue, his notes are more responses to the people, literature, artwork, and music encountered in or evoked by the places he visited. In addition to his prose meditations on his travel experiences, he wrote at times drafts of poems that later appeared in some of his fourteen poetry collections. 


JANUARY 2021 IS MARÍA’S MONTH

February 2021 in observance of Black History Month

About Dave

Dave's Interests

Reading and writing poetry

Music, especially Classical Music and Jazz

Playing the piano

Gardening 

Dave's Favorite Things

Rudy, his feline companion, begs to be named among his favorite things.



Photo Gallery: Personal Moments

On Dave’s converted player piano, purchased from The Piano Barn in Austin,  two granddaughters started taking lessons. Dave has tried for decades to perform his beloved Bach pieces without making the same mistakes. Above the piano: His portrait by longtime friend Jon Bracker, from 1961; María as a very serious student with her pen and copybook, circa 1954; and fifty years later in 2004 as Dave's movie star.

    Dave in Austin, Texas

    Dave as Editor of Publications at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of U.T. Austin

    Dave as Editor of Publications at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of U.T. Austin

    From student to teacher to editor to poet. Austin is "Deep in the Heart" of it all. 

    In the capital city Dave attended the University of Texas, met lifelong friends, became editor of Riata, the student literary magazine, earned the M.A., in Illinois the Ph.D., and in 1976 returned to Austin with María, their son Darío and daughter Elisa, taught at UT, edited a scholarly journal, then served as coordinator of the Freshman Seminars Program from 1997 until his retirement in 2006.

    Dave as Editor of Publications at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of U.T. Austin

    Dave as Editor of Publications at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of U.T. Austin

    Dave as Editor of Publications at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of U.T. Austin

    The Library Chronicle and Special Book Editions

    from 1979-1996


    As editor of publications at the Ransom Center, Dave produced over fifty issues of The Library Chronicle (founded in 1944), including special-focus numbers on such subjects as James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, the Bebop Revolution in Words and Music, and the University's Benson Latin American Collection.

    Prose Works: Harbingers, Generations, and Travels of a Texas Poet

    Dave as Editor of Publications at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of U.T. Austin

    Prose Works: Harbingers, Generations, and Travels of a Texas Poet

    HARBINGERS OF BOOKS TO COME: A TEXAN’S LITERARY LIFE

    “Dave Oliphant’s voice —as poet, critic, teacher, editor, publisher, historian of Texas jazz, and translator of Chilean poetry—has been a significant one in Texas letters for over forty years. With detail and clarity this new memoir, Harbingers of Books to Come, traces the young Fort Worth boy’s odyssey to Beaumont, Austin, Mexico City, Santiago, and beyond and demonstrates the fullness of a literary life.” 

    - Mark Busby, Past President, Texas Institute of Letters; author of Fort Benning Blues

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    Generations of Texas Poets

    Translated Works & Hallazgo y traducción de poesía chilena

    Prose Works: Harbingers, Generations, and Travels of a Texas Poet

    A collection of essays, articles, book reviews, and other writings on Texas poets published in magazines and books between 1973 and 2013.


    “When it comes to Texas literature, there has never been a greater champion of the state’s poetry than Dave Oliphant. . . . [He] has established himself firmly as the most knowledgeable and vigorous cataloguer of Texas poets and their work.”—Roger Jones, in Texas Books in Review (2001)


    “Oliphant  .  .  .  has dutifully  track[ed]  the  writers  great  and  small,  and  is  the  assiduous  reader  of  each  text  he  writes  about.”  

    Paul Christensen, in Texas  Writers’  Newletter  (1983)


    "Oliphant has contributed significantly to the development of poetry in Texas, and he is not slowing down."—Lyman Grant, The Texas Observer (1999)

    Book Link

    Translated Works & Hallazgo y traducción de poesía chilena

    Translated Works & Hallazgo y traducción de poesía chilena

    Translated Works & Hallazgo y traducción de poesía chilena

    List of Translated Works:

    • Anthology of 22 Chilean Poets, Special Issue of Road Apple Review (1972).
    • Figures of Speech. Poems by Enrique Lihn (1999).
    • Love Hound. Poems by Oliver Welden (2006). Winner of New York Poetry Award (2007).
    • After-Dinner Declarations. Poems by Nicanor Parra (2009). Winner of Texas Institute of Letters Book Translation Award (2011).
    • Hallazgo y traducción de poesía chilena. (2019). Dave’s  writings on  Chilean poetry, translated by friends or written by him in Spanish.


    After-Dinner Book Link

    Lamar University Beaumont, Texas Exhibit February 2013

    Translated Works & Hallazgo y traducción de poesía chilena

    Translated Works & Hallazgo y traducción de poesía chilena

    The exhibit featured Dave’s trumpet he played with The Technicians, the Lamar college dance band,  and on Take Four, an album recorded by the band in 1958. Also on display was his prize-winning poem entitled “An Afternoon of Debussy,” published in the Lamar literary magazine Pulse, which has been publishing student writing since its inception in 1958. Dave's essay on American composer Charles Ives was published in the inaugural issue of Pulse and was  his first publication.

    Lamar University Exhibit Link

    TCU - Texas Christian University Fort Worth, Texas

    Alamo Bay Press Austin & Seadrift, Texas

    TCU - Texas Christian University Fort Worth, Texas

    Dave chose TCU, in his Cowtown hometown, to house his

    Archive Collections: 


     Prickly Pear Press  1973-1998


    Dave Oliphant Bulk Papers 1970-2013

    TCU website link

    Malvern Books Austin, Texas

    Alamo Bay Press Austin & Seadrift, Texas

    TCU - Texas Christian University Fort Worth, Texas

    First opened in October 2013, Malvern Books

    was an Austin bookstore owned by Joe Bratcher,  founder of the bilingual translation magazine, The Dirty Goat, and publisher of Host Publications (founded in 1988), which published Dave’s poetry collections, Memories of Texas Towns & Cities and Backtracking, and also his translated  works: Figures of Speech by Enrique Lihn; Love Hound by Oliver Welden; and After-Dinner Declarations by Nicanor Parra.

    Malvern Books website

    Alamo Bay Press Austin & Seadrift, Texas

    Alamo Bay Press Austin & Seadrift, Texas

    Alamo Bay Press Austin & Seadrift, Texas

    Established in 2013 by Pamela Booton, Lowell Mick White, and Diane  Wilson, Alamo Bay Press has published an eclectic range of books by local and international writers and artists. Alamo Bay has published or issued revised editions of six of Dave’s poetry collections: María’s Book; The Cowtown Circle; Austin: a Poem; KD: a Jazz Biography; The Hero’s Fall I Fell For; and Memories of Texas Towns & Cities.

    Alamo Bay Press website

    A Sampling of Book Reviews

    Review of Austin Book in The Texas Observer, page 1

    By Michael King from The Texas Observer, 1986

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    Austin Book Review page 2

    By Michael King from The Texas Observer, 1986

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    Blurb from After-Dinner Declarations, 2009/winner of Texas INSTITUTE Of letters book translation award, 2011

    Book Cover & REVIEW OF HALLAZGO Y TRADUCCION DE POESIA CHILENA, 4 PAGES

    Brazilian Journal QORPUS, publisher of interview in Portuguese by Mary Ann Warken regarding DAVE’S translationS OF THE antipoetry of Nicanor Parra

    Interview in the Brazilian journal qorpus November 2020, 10

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