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Poems of the American West

Robert Mezey
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Author : Robert Mezey
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375414596

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In this provocative and thoughtful anthology, many voices join in illuminating the remarkably vast and varied American West. The verse collected here ranges from American Indian tribal poems to old folk songs like “The Streets of Laredo,” from country-western lyrics to the work of such foreign poets as Bertolt Brecht and Zbigniew Herbert. Here is the West in all its rich variety–the harsh life of farms and ranches; man’s destructive invasion into forest and desert solitudes; the bars and bistros of San Francisco and Hollywood; Pacific surf and endless highways; the ghost towns, the poverty, and the legendary world of cowpunchers and gunslingers. From Robert Frost’s “Once by the Pacific” to Charles Bukowski’s “Vegas,” from Fred Koller’s “Lone Star State of Mind” to Thom Gunn’s “San Francisco Streets”–the West is evoked in all its incarnations, both actual and mythic.

Poetry of the American West

Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Author : Alison Hawthorne Deming
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231103875

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One hundred fifty poems by seventy-five poets offer an inclusive collage of voices--protest poems of the Chicano farmworkers' movement, campfire cowboy songs, sacred Native American songs, and works by Willa Cather, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, and other canonical figures--from a land where cultural collision is part of the rugged landscape.

Bitter Creek Junction

Linda M. Hasselstrom
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Author : Linda M. Hasselstrom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110450843

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The West found in Linda Hasselstrom's poems is neither the mythical Old West nor the New West of ranchettes and trophy homes. Hasselstrom's aria is set to the rhythms of the authentic West, laced with lyrical realism, and distilled to the sharp crispness of a plains morning. Here you'll find the night heron whose "slender beak descends, a sudden hammer on a silver spine." You'll "give yourself sunsets]]in shades of pink and gold" while "long tatters curl eastward like discarded ribbons."

Old West Poems

Christopher Hooten
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Author : Christopher Hooten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1888215283

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Old West Poems depicts the lifestyle of cowboys in the American West. Cowboys blazed trails as they moved cattle to market in Kansas and Nebraska. It describes their adventures and many of the poems are historically factual.

Familiar History

Guiseppe Getto
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Author : Guiseppe Getto
Publisher : Finishing Line Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1635340438

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In the words of the always-incisive Corrinne Cleggs Hales, Familiar History "expertly de-romanticizes the landscape and mythology of the American west, revealing a world defined largely by struggle and failure and broken lives." The poems in these pages take an unflinching look at rural life in the Desert Southwest and reveal a world composed of harshly beautiful scenery, as reflected in the poem "Burning Wishes" Someone said they never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. Me neither, but it seemed sometimes like they ought to be. The bark beetles that crunch in and out of their white fir tunnels and branch outward until each thorax, leg, and instinct intersects, becoming a web meaning nothing. A cold snap couples indeterminately with wind velocity and the fracture lines of ice particles, killing only incidentally. The message is clear: in the universe of these poems, nature doesn't care about you or the meaning you give it. The book also reveals the child abuse, violence, racism, and poverty endemic to much of this region through the eyes of someone who spent nearly 30 years there. In the title poem, the narrator speaks directly to this relationship between the memories carried in human bodies and those held by the landscapes they inhabit: I will learn to seal everything up inside. We all will. In 1969 the desert will swallow an atom bomb whole. In 1969 my grandmother's pancreas will swallow too much of the awful light from a safe distance inside a bus. After awhile you begin to realize light in the desert can penetrate anything. A 1951 description of the Nevada Test Site, included in an Army brochure for the Camp Desert Rock soldiers, tells them that the desert is a damned good place for disposing of used razor blades. It is. Familiar History is equal parts a lyrical reflection on the relationship between humanity and the natural environment and a deeply personal revelation of the secrets of a family of malcontents. The narrator's story is the story of rural America: a bitter tonic of regret, euphoria, and the search for salvation.

New Poets of the American West

Lowell Jaeger
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Author : Lowell Jaeger
Publisher : Many Voices Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0979518547

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New Poets of the American West is a panoramic (and revealing) view of the West through the eyes of more than 250 poets and 450 poems, including poems in English, Spanish, Navajo, Salish, Assiniboine, and Dakota languages. In these pages you will visit flea markets, military bases, internment camps, reservations, funerals, weddings, rodeos, nursing homes, national parks, backyard barbecues, prisons, forests, meadows, rivers, and mountain tops. In your ¿mind¿s eye,¿ you will meet a simple-minded girl who gets run over by a bull, two mothers watching a bear menacingly nosing toward unsuspecting children, and children who ¿have yet to be toilet trained out of their souls.¿ You will learn to ¿reach into the sacred womb, / grasp a placid hoof / and coax life toward this certain moment.¿ You¿ll teach poetry to third graders, converse with hitchhikers, lament for an incarcerated brother ¿trying to fill the holes in his soul / with Camel cigarettes / and crude tattoos.¿ You will sit at the kitchen table where perhaps the world will end ¿while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.¿ In the short time each of us has in this world, here¿s your chance to experience life widely and to reflect on your experiences deeply.

Winning the Dust Bowl

Carter Revard
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Author : Carter Revard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050540965

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In a memoir in prose and poetry, the author traces his development from a poor Oklahoma farm boy during the depths of the Depression to a respected medieval scholar and outstanding Native American poet.

Out Where The West Begins

Arthur Chapman
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Author : Arthur Chapman
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 137853462X

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Second Wind

Patricia Frolander
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Author : Patricia Frolander
Publisher : Poetry of the American West
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1937147053

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"A collection of poems by Patricia Frolander. She writes of loss, aging, and life on a ranch in the Black Hills of northeast Wyoming." --

Cowboy Poems About the Old West and New

Bob Frost
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Author : Bob Frost
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781440170126

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Cowboy Poems About the Old West and New by Bob Frost Pdf

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.

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781493008421

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National Cowboy Poetry Gathering by Anonim Pdf

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West

Steven Frye
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Author : Steven Frye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107095373

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This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.

West Wind

Mary Oliver
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Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395850851

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A collection of forty poems that explore the transformation of love and nature over time.

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West

Nicolas S. Witschi
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Author : Nicolas S. Witschi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118652510

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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies

She Speaks to Me

Jill Stanford
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Author : Jill Stanford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493019045

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This anthology of “Cowgirl” poets, and edited by Jill Charlotte Stanford (The Cowgirl's Cookbook, Keep Cookin' Cowgirl) features the words of a wide range of Western women poets chosen for this collection by real ranching women and cowgirls across the West as the poets whose words most speak to them and the Western experience.