Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream : Contemporary Cowboy WritingRobert McDowell Story Line Press, 2000 - 273 Seiten 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! |
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... earth . There's many through the years been lost Or burned or throwed away , But others yet survive To give us views of yesterday . And still amongst the workin ' hands The words come now and then To write a livin ' history Of the stock ...
... earth . There's many through the years been lost Or burned or throwed away , But others yet survive To give us views of yesterday . And still amongst the workin ' hands The words come now and then To write a livin ' history Of the stock ...
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... earth's breast , coyotes singing in wind , meadowlarks flashing in the grass , buffalo shaking the world with his bellow , plowing with his hooves . I give you back what our ancestors had . You earn the land after your name is on the ...
... earth's breast , coyotes singing in wind , meadowlarks flashing in the grass , buffalo shaking the world with his bellow , plowing with his hooves . I give you back what our ancestors had . You earn the land after your name is on the ...
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... earth , my mother , bade to me , Though I would still ride wild and free . And as I flew out on the morning , Before the bird , before the dawn , My heart would beat the world a warning — Those horsemen now rode all with me , And we ...
... earth , my mother , bade to me , Though I would still ride wild and free . And as I flew out on the morning , Before the bird , before the dawn , My heart would beat the world a warning — Those horsemen now rode all with me , And we ...
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POETRY | 13 |
J B ALLEN | 25 |
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