Glass-Eyed Paint in the Rain (Poetry of the American West) [Paperback]

Laurie Wagner Buyer (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 78 pages
• Publisher: High Plains Pr (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931271401
• ISBN-13: 978-0931271403
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,268,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Poet, memoirist, and novelist Laurie Wagner Buyer Jameson spent over thirty years living in the backwoods and working on remote ranches in the Rocky Mountain West. Now married to renowned author/singer/songwriter/professional treasure hunter W.C. Jameson they reside at Casita de Luz in the small hill country town of Llano, Texas.

Laurie has an MFA in Writing from Goddard College and her freelance articles and photographs have appeared in dozens of periodicals, journals, reviews, and anthologies. She is the author of six collections of poetry, Glass-eyed Paint in the Rain, Red Colt Canyon, Across the High Divide, Cinch Up Your Saddle, Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal, and Accidental Voices; a novel based on a true story, Side Canyons; and two memoirs, Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles and When I Came West.

Laurie has received the Beryl Markham Prize for Creative Nonfiction, the Western Writer's of America Spur Award in Poetry, and has twice been named a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and for the Women Writing the West Willa Cather Literary Award. She was recently awarded the ForeWord Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention for When I Came West.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply, simply wonderful, January 22, 2012

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This review is from: Glass-Eyed Paint in the Rain (Poetry of the American West) (Paperback)

Laurie Wagner Buyer shakes me. She rattles me. She is a voice true, kind, sparkling, fresh and honest. Her best poems are so stark and scintillating they stand in your way like giant diamonds, demanding you either climb them or yield.

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!, February 25, 2009

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E. B. (Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Glass-Eyed Paint in the Rain (Poetry of the American West) (Paperback)

In this slim book of poetry, Laurie Wagner Buyers captures both the beauty and the harsh reality of life lived on the ranches and farms of the American West. In To Kill a Cat, you feel the love in this hard man who shoots the cat--one shot--and buries it for her. In The Taste of Honey, she imagines the longed for spring. In the Shadow of Black Mountain, one glimpses the beauty of character in the long-time ranch woman being laid to rest.
Eunice Boeve, author of Ride a Shadowed Trail