The author, a prize-winning cowboy poet, delivers the reality of the West through this, his third collection of original western and cowboy poetry. His work is pointed toward remembering, preserving, sharing, and celebrating our western and cowboy heritage and traditions. The poems are drawn, primarily, from his experience as a young cowboy in the Sandhills of Nebraska in the 1930's and 1940's. They are also influenced by his pre-teen acquaintance with Badger Clark, the classic cowboy poet, who was then Poet Laureate of South Dakota.
Clark Crouch is an award winning poet and a performing artist. He is the author of seven books, five of which are devoted to traditional western and cowboy poetry, and is the editor of an eighth...an anthology of Western poetry. His book, Views from the Saddle, is the 2010 winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Cowboy Poetry. An earlier book, Western Images, won the 2008 award and, in 2009, was named one of the top four contemporary cowboy poetry books by the Western Music Association. His poetry has appeared in Chopin with Cherries (a poetic anthology), Thirteenth, Open Range Magazine, and The Country Register as well as on numerous literary and western websites.
Clark's viewpoints and biases were shaped by the Great Depression and droughts in Nebraska where he worked as youthful cowboy in the 1930s and early 1940s, earning his own way from the time he was twelve years of age.
Although two of his books contain free and blank verse, his preference is for traditional poetry with consistent meter and true rhymes as appeared in poems written and recited by western poets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He performs throughout the northwest at county fairs, community events, cowboy gatherings, retirement homes, and in a variety of other venues.
