New Cowboy Poetry

New Cowboy Poetry PDF Author: Hal Cannon
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780879052430
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Book Description
These recent works are from America's best cowboy and cowgirl poets, most of whom are regular participants in local cowboy poetry gatherings and in the Granddaddy Gathering held each January in Elko, Nevada. Included here are some of the best-known poets, such as Waddie Mitchell, Wally McRae, and more who breathe reality into the myth of the ranching life. Cowboy Poetry is a cultural phenomenon that continues to spread like wildfire across the country.

New Cowboy Poetry

New Cowboy Poetry PDF Author: Hal Cannon
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780879052430
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Book Description
These recent works are from America's best cowboy and cowgirl poets, most of whom are regular participants in local cowboy poetry gatherings and in the Granddaddy Gathering held each January in Elko, Nevada. Included here are some of the best-known poets, such as Waddie Mitchell, Wally McRae, and more who breathe reality into the myth of the ranching life. Cowboy Poetry is a cultural phenomenon that continues to spread like wildfire across the country.

Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems

Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems PDF Author: Wallace McRae
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423609315
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Wally McRae, a regularly featured performer at the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, has performed on a syndicated television program and at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. He is the first cowboy poet to be granted a National Heritage Award. This book contains 94 of his poems, including such classics as Reincarnation, along with 40 new poems published for the first time.Paperback; 25 black & white illustrations

Cowboy Poetry Matters

Cowboy Poetry Matters PDF Author: Robert McDowell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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In his groundbreaking essay "Can Poetry Matter?" (reprinted here), Dana Gioia suggested that many types of poetry, assumed by some readers to be marginal art, should not so easily be deleted from mainstream American literature. Throughout the twentieth century, perhaps no important writing has been as seriously -- and mistakenly -- overlooked by the literati as Cowboy poetry. Essentially connected to the folk tale, to legend, myth, the ballad, and song, and vitally enhanced by the contemporary voices of independent ranch women, Cowboy poetry vividly connects us to our past and our fragile, threatened natural environment. The writers included here, both working horse-and-cattle people and mainstream authors, share the brand of bold expression and independent thought found only among the best literary artists. Here is not literary theory. Here is literary life. An anthology as diverse as America herself!

Cowboy Poetry

Cowboy Poetry PDF Author: Virginia Bennett
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586853495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
In Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion we lift our lariats and salute twenty years of poetry sharing at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Reflective and rascally, tough and fresh, clever and insightful, this book holds the history, the heritage, and the future of the vibrant voices of the West. This anthology comprises some of the best of traditional cowboy poetry predating the present cowboy poetry revival, as well as work created since 1985. It is a great retrospective, giving us a sense of where we have been and where we are going, as well as a fitting tribute to the men and women whose words reflect an authentic American West. Virginia Bennett is the editor of Cowgirl Poetry, also published by Gibbs Smith, Publisher.

Cowboy Poetry

Cowboy Poetry PDF Author: Hal Cannon
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780879052089
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Book Description
This collection of poems was chosen from among 10, 000 gathered from cowboy reciters, ranch poets and from a library of over 200 published works of cowboy verse. One third of the poems are classics that have proven their vitality by having lived in the hearts and minds of cowboys and ranchers for decades. The remaining two-thirds are new, created within the last few years. "Most cowboy poems speak of real events and people, from bucking horses and cagey cows to old Stetson hats and long winter travels. Although they focus on the ordinary stuff of life, their truths . . . seem no less eternal than those penned by William Shakespeare. Some cowboy poems are bust-a-gut funny; a few are downright dirty . . . most carry an honest, primitive power." --Michael Riley, TIME Magazine

A Cowful of Cowboy Poetry

A Cowful of Cowboy Poetry PDF Author: Baxter Black
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780939343300
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
An illustrated collection of over 100 works by the renowned cowboy poet.

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering PDF Author: Western Folklife Center
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493008420
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Book Description
The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is the granddaddy of all cowboy poetry events, proclaimed by the US Senate in 2000 in recognition of its pioneering role in the preservation and revitalization of this important American tradition. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the event, this commemorative volume collects 100 poems by various cowboy poets who have appeared at the gathering over the last three decades, from Baxter Black and Wallace McRae to Georgie Sicking and Paul Zarzyski. Representing the best contemporary cowboy poetry from the first gathering to the present, the poets and poems are culled for their importance and quality with consideration for a wide range of topics that represent the richness and depth of this broad genre. In addition to poems that will make you smile, sigh, or sit up straight in your saddle, the anthology features expressive photos of the contributors, biographical and explanatory headnotes, relevant artwork from the Western Folklife Center’s extensive archives, and illuminating sidebars on various topics such as working cattle; life on the land; the relationship between cowboy poetry and song; gear, horses, or cattle mentioned in poems; and profiles and photos of important cowboy poets from earlier times. Cowboy poet extraordinare Baxter Black will provide a foreword, and Charlie Seemann, executive director of the Western Folklife Center, will write an introduction that gives context both to the event itself and to cowboy poetry in general, from the days of the trail drives in the nineteenth century to the lives of the hardworking men and women who still ranch and live on the land in the West today.

Cowboy Poems About the Old West and New

Cowboy Poems About the Old West and New PDF Author: Bob Frost
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440170126
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Book Description
In his first poetry book, A Sweet Place to Play, Author Bob Frost compiled his collection of work from over thirty years. Cowboy Poems about the Old West and New is a collection of original poems the author wrote as he explored the west and rode with the Verde Vaqueros of Scottsdale, AZ. Bob tries to imagine what it must have been like in the old west. He wondered what they thought about and what humorous events might have taken place. Some of the poems are simple stories with a surprise humorous ending, while others take on a more serious pondering. In Chapter three he shares a different style in some of the poetry; some are more descriptive, others, metaphorical and even mystic. Living in Scottsdale, Arizona for almost forty years has given the author close ties and interest in the old west as well as experience in the new. In addition to being a poet, he is an auctioneer, enjoys golf, fishing and music.

Coyote Cowboy Poetry

Coyote Cowboy Poetry PDF Author: Baxter Black
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780939343003
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A collection of cowboy verse and stories drawn from three previous collections, with an additional thirty-five pieces that have never been published in book form.

Cowboy Poets & Cowboy Poetry

Cowboy Poets & Cowboy Poetry PDF Author: David Stanley
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068362
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Book Description
This book offers the first in-depth examination of a distinctive and community-based tradition rich with larger-than-life heroes, vivid occupational language, humor, and unblinking encounters with birth, death, nature, and animals in the poetry.