Between earth and sky : poets of the cowboy West

Book 1995

Reaching far beyond its cow-country beginnings, the poetry of the cowboy West is awakening a response in mainstream America. In our restless, confused society, there is a yearning for a connection to the land; for the sound of the human voice; for simple, natural truth. This anthology, accompanied by photographic portraits of twelve remarkable personalities, celebrates the cowboy poets who make up this book. Among them, Wally McRae, a third-gener...

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American poetry 20th century

American poetry West (U.S.)

Cowboys Poetry

West (U.S.) Poetry

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ISBN:

9780393037364
0393037363

Edition:

First edition

Description:

218 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218)

Contents:

Foreword / Kim R. Stafford
Introduction / Anne Heath Widmark
Buck Ramsey
Bonnie Trina
Anthem
Wallace McRae
Things of Intrinsic Worth
Little Things
Reincarnation
We Never Rode the Judiths
Rod McQueary
Life and Times
For Woody
For Souls
For Life
Linda Hussa
The Blue Filly
In This Moment
A Birth
Under the Hunter Moon
John Dofflemyer
Upstream
When the Redbuds Come
The Sierra's Spine
Chagoopa Plateau
Shadd Piehl
Storm Front
My Grandfather's and Father's Horses
Winter Breaks
Towards Horses
Paul Zarzyski
Staircase
Words Growing Wild in the Woods
Luck of the Draw
A Song Moment for Ian Tyson
Sue Wallis
A Thousand Pretty Ponies
Timothy Draw
The Big Lonely
Brighid
Vess Quinlan
Sold Out
The Trouble with Dreams
The Cutting Post
Henry Real Bird
Cowboy Drifter
Red Scarf
Among Shootin' Stars
Joel Nelson
Kings, Queens, and Mountain Kingdoms

LCCN:

94040343

Control Number:

56806

Other Authors:

Reeves, Kent
Widmark, Anne Heath

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