Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879052082 ISBN 13: 9780879052089

Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2007

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

From the Inside Flap:

Contents (by author) Introductio Acknowledgments Allen McCanless Gail Gardner Anonymous Anonymous S. Omar Barker Larry Chittendon T.J. McCoy Anonymous Eugene Ware Anonymous D.J. O'Malley James Barton Adams Bruce Kiskaddon Henry Herbert Knibbs Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Curley Fletcher Badger Clark Nyle A. Henderson Carlos Ashley Georgie Sicking Jon Bowerman Howard Norskog Waddie Mitchell Ernie Fanning Jesse Smith Buck Wilkerson Bob Schild Jim Hofer Baxter Black Charles A. Kortes Nick Johnson Linda Ash Bill Lowman Ross Knox Don Ian Smith Melvin L. Whipple Lucky Whipple Gorden Eastman Duane Reece Harold Otto Vern Mortensen R. O. Munn Drummond Hadley Dick Gibford Bill Simpson Barney Nelson Jim Bollers Owen Barton Don Bell Wallace McRae Vess Quinlan

From the Back Cover:

"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 but-a-gut funny; a few are downright dirty . . . most carry an honest, primitive power."

--Michael Riley, TIME Magazine