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Title Cowboy poets & cowboy poetry / edited by David Stanley and Elaine Thatcher.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  811.009978 C838 2000    ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  811.009978 C838 2000 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiii, 392 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cowboy poetry then and now : an overview / David Stanley -- PART 1: BACKGROUNDS: Making something fine / Kim Stafford -- Why cowboy poetry? Some thoughts toward an answer / James S. Griffith -- "Rain is the sweat of the sky" : cowboy poetry as American ethnopoetics / Scott Preston -- Tradition of cowboy poetry / Guy Logsdon -- Cowboy poetry : a poetry of exile / Hal Cannon -- PART 2: PROCESS: Change and oral tradition in cowboy poetry / Warren Miller -- Cowboy libraries and lingo / Buck Ramsey -- Orderly disorder : form and tension in cowboy poetry / David Stanley -- Poems and songs on the rodeo trail / Glenn Ohrlin -- Hitching verse to tune : the relationship of cowboy song to poetry / Charlie Seemann -- Cottonseed cake and pickups : where cowboy poetry came from / Bill Lowman -- PART 3: PORTRAITS: Montana cowboy poet / John I. White -- "Some folks wouldn't understand it" : a study of Henry Herbert Knibbs / Ronna Lee Sharpe and Tom Sharpe -- Ray Lashley : an interview with a frontier reciter / Carol Edison and Ray Lashley -- Makin's of a cowboy poet / Jon Bowerman -- PART 4: THEMES: Families, neighbors, and friends : the tradition of cow-country poetry / Sue Wallis -- Nature and cowboy poetry / Craig Miller -- Women and cowboy poetry / Elaine Thatcher -- New wind out of the West : the poetry of contemporary ranch women / Teresa Jordan -- PART 5: CONNECTIONS: Levantando versos and other vaquero voices : oral traditions of South Texas Mexican American cowboys / Cynthia L. Vidaurri -- Cows and logs : commonalities and poetic dialogue among cowboys and loggers in the Pacific Northwest / Jens Lund -- Poetic traditons of the gaucho / William Katra -- Australian bush poetry / Keith McKenry -- PART 6: DEVELOPMENTS: Cowboys, folklorists, authenticity, and tourism / James C. McNutt -- Cowboy poetics at the millennium / John C. Dofflemyer -- Making ourselves at home / William Kittredge.
Subject Cowboys' writings, American -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life.
West (U.S.) -- In literature.
Cowboys in literature.
Added Author Stanley, David, 1942-
Thatcher, Elaine.
Added Title Cowboy poets and cowboy poetry
ISBN 0252025202 (alk. paper)
025206836X (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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