Cowboy poetry matters : from Abilene to the mainstream : contemporary cowboy writing /
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| Imprint: | Ashland, OR : Story Line Press, 2000. |
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| Description: | xviii, 273 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4274140 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Robert McDowell
- Wisps
- Nighthawk Notions
- The Medicine Keepers
- Treasures
- Reasons for Stayin' / J. B. Allen
- The Lion
- Social Justice
- Tapestry of Knots
- Such Control / Virginia Bennett
- Calvin'
- The Saturday Matinee
- Last Visit with the Banker
- The Hunter
- The Runaways / Jon Bowerman
- Mysterious Maiden
- Old Never
- Charlie Jones / Robert R. Brown
- When I Came West
- Madge
- Smell of Sage
- Bareback
- Letters
- Kneading Bread
- Wooing the Wanton Mare
- Sunderance / Laurie Wagner Buyer
- The Aliens
- One, April
- To Have a Man
- Twenty-Sixth Winter / John C. Dofflemyer
- After this
- Finding the Trail
- August / Tami Haaland
- Names of Horses / Donald Hall
- Haying: A Four-Part Definition
- Butchering the Crippled Heifer
- Beef Eater
- What the Falcon Said
- Hands
- My Last Will and Testament
- Coffee Cup Cafe / Linda M. Hasselstrom
- Give us Raini
- Swans
- The Man Shoeing a Horse and his Little Girl
- Playing at Doctor
- In the Evening Autumn
- I Fix the Fence - the Fence Fixes Me
- Dear Child
- Love Letters / Linda Hussa
- So Many Horses
- The Barn
- Whispers
- To the Wild Pony / Tony Johnston
- Amanda is Shod
- The Agnostic Speaks to her Horse's Hoof
- Thinking of Death and Dogfood
- Feeding Time / Maxine Kumin
- Le Coursier de Jeanne D'Arc
- A Thousand Genuflections
- Girl from Lynn Bathes Horse!!
- Bucked
- On Horseback
- Riding Out at Evening
- With the Horse in the Winter Pasture / Linda McCarriston
- We Never Rode the Judiths
- Sold to the Highest Bidder
- Grandmother's French Hollyhocks
- A Woman's Place
- Malcolm and the Stranglers
- Riders' Block
- Things of Intrinsic Worth / Wallace McRae
- Breaker in the Pen
- The Shadow on the Cutbank
- The Men who Ride no More
- Shady Valleys
- Song of the Packer / Joel Nelson
- Family Fences
- Breaking Poets
- Hellfire / Thelma Poirier
- Anthem
- Bum Thinking Nowhere Near a Horse
- Notes for a Novel
- Child of the Plains
- Songdog
- A Ponder
- Season Song / Buck Ramsey
- My Pony / Liam Rector
- Says Harry
- Benediction after a Gathering of Cowboy Poets
- The Stump-Grubbers
- The Red-Tail Hawk
- When the Devil Plays his Fiddle
- Ashes, after Fire
- A Prairie Mother's Prayer / Andy Wilkinson
- Buck
- All this Way for the Short Ride
- To Wallace
- The Meaning of Intimacy
- Hip-Cocked Broncs
- Putting the Rodeo Try into Cowboy Poetry
- Bizarzyski, Mad Poet and Carpenter Savant, Feeds the Birds
- One Sweet Evening Just this Year / Paul Zarzyski
- Dewclaw / Linda Hussa
- Two Mountain Stones: Cowboy Character Studies / Wallace McRae
- Borderlands: Cowboy Poetry and the Literary Canon / Nancy McLelland
- Can Poetry Matter? / Dana Gioia
- The Lariati Versus/Verses the Literati: Loping Toward Dana Dioia's Dream come Real / Paul Zarzyski
- "Ridin' Up the Rocky Trail from Town": Pastoral Vision in American Cowboy and Ranching Poetry
- Cowboy Poetry Anthologies of Note.