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.
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American poetry -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
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Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life.
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West (U.S.) -- In literature.
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Cowboys in literature.
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Added Author |
Stanley, David, 1942-
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Thatcher, Elaine.
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Added Title |
Cowboy poets and cowboy poetry |
ISBN |
0252025202 (alk. paper) |
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025206836X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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