Poet Wrangler
Author: Marvin R. Hiemstra
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 1937928462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marvin R. Hiemstra
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 1937928462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hal Cannon
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780879052089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Author: AL Inmon
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780615449692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sixteen-year-old Little Joe goes to work on a trail drive, pushing a cattle herd north across Red River, through several states, to market in Kansas.
Author: David Stanley
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780252068362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Tupelo Hassman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 146680145X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn't got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she's checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card, and she pores over its surreal advice (Uniforms, disposing of outgrown; The Right Use of Your Body; Finding Your Way When Lost) for tips to get off the Calle: that is, the Calle de las Flores, the Reno trailer park where she lives with her mother, Jo, the sweet-faced, hard-luck bartender at the Truck Stop. Rory's been told that she is one of the "third-generation bastards surely on the road to whoredom." But she's determined to prove the county and her own family wrong. Brash, sassy, vulnerable, wise, and terrified, she struggles with her mother's habit of trusting the wrong men, and the mixed blessing of being too smart for her own good. From diary entries, social workers' reports, half-recalled memories, arrest records, family lore, Supreme Court opinions, and her grandmother's letters, Rory crafts a devastating collage that shows us her world even as she searches for the way out of it. Tupelo Hassman's Girlchild is a heart-stopping and original debut.
Author: Michael Whitaker
Publisher: Cowboy Miner Productions
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781931725125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-01-31
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1139619969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity. Also considering Edward Lear, Daniel Brown finds the Victorian renaissances in research science and nonsense literature to be curiously interrelated. Whereas science and literature studies have mostly focused upon canonical literary figures, this original and important book conversely explores the uses literature was put to by eminent Victorian scientists.