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The poets in McDowell's anthology take up one challenge set forth in Dana Gioia's renowned 1991 essay, "Can Poetry Matter?" --to re-engage with the world of work. These are poems about labor by poets who, even if they don't now ranch or farm, know plenty about working horses. Most know cattle raising, though they don't write much in its lingo. Certainly cultural nostalgia for the Wild West hooks us into reading the poems, but nostalgia and the rugged individualism with which cowboys are thoughtlessly encumbered aren't their stock-in-trade. Instead, the qualities that predominate are hard, painful work; the fellowship of those, including the horses, who do it; and the stunning beauties and otherness of the natural world in which it is done. Yes, many poems are sentimental, but they don't all rhyme or trip along in ballad meters, and many of the best are by women, especially Linda M. Hasslestrom, Linda Hussa, and Linda McCarriston. The accompanying memoirs by Hussa and Wallace McRae are also outstanding, and the critical essays that round out the book aren't bad, either. Ray Olson
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For years, Cowboy Poetry has been seen by readers of mainstream American poetry as a marginal art. Cowboy Poetry Matters is the first book of its kind to dispel this idea by creating a dialogue between contemporary mainstream poets and traditional Cowboy poets. Spurred by Dana Gioia's essay, "Can Poetry Matter?," Paul Zarzyski responds with "The Lariati Versus/Verses the Literati: Loping Towards Dana Gioia's Dream Come Real," a compelling essay in which an historical bridge is built between the urban contemporary canon and the rural pasture land. Cowboy Poetry Matters brings together the work of poets whose common ground is their love of horses and their dedication to their own style of "cowboying." Whether it be Maxine Kumin's depiction of her horse being shod, Linda McCarriston's haunting vision of Joan of Arc's horse burned before her eyes, or Laurie Wagner Buyer's song of "Wooing the Wanton Mare," this anthology expands the boundaries as to what constitutes a Cowboy poem. Those who do not consider themselves lovers of traditional Cowboy Poetry, will be utterly surprised by what they find inside: Donald Hall, Wallace McRae and Buck Ramsey riding their horses side by side by side.
The poets in McDowell's anthology take up one challenge set forth in Dana Gioia's renowned 1991 essay, "Can Poetry Matter?" --to re-engage with the world of work. These are poems about labor by poets who, even if they don't now ranch or farm, know plenty about working horses. Most know cattle raising, though they don't write much in its lingo. Certainly cultural nostalgia for the Wild West hooks us into reading the poems, but nostalgia and the rugged individualism with which cowboys are thoughtlessly encumbered aren't their stock-in-trade. Instead, the qualities that predominate are hard, painful work; the fellowship of those, including the horses, who do it; and the stunning beauties and otherness of the natural world in which it is done. Yes, many poems are sentimental, but they don't all rhyme or trip along in ballad meters, and many of the best are by women, especially Linda M. Hasslestrom, Linda Hussa, and Linda McCarriston. The accompanying memoirs by Hussa and Wallace McRae are also outstanding, and the critical essays that round out the book aren't bad, either. Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
For years, Cowboy Poetry has been seen by readers of mainstream American poetry as a marginal art. Cowboy Poetry Matters is the first book of its kind to dispel this idea by creating a dialogue between contemporary mainstream poets and traditional Cowboy poets. Spurred by Dana Gioia's essay, "Can Poetry Matter?," Paul Zarzyski responds with "The Lariati Versus/Verses the Literati: Loping Towards Dana Gioia's Dream Come Real," a compelling essay in which an historical bridge is built between the urban contemporary canon and the rural pasture land. Cowboy Poetry Matters brings together the work of poets whose common ground is their love of horses and their dedication to their own style of "cowboying." Whether it be Maxine Kumin's depiction of her horse being shod, Linda McCarriston's haunting vision of Joan of Arc's horse burned before her eyes, or Laurie Wagner Buyer's song of "Wooing the Wanton Mare," this anthology expands the boundaries as to what constitutes a Cowboy poem. Those who do not consider themselves lovers of traditional Cowboy Poetry, will be utterly surprised by what they find inside: Donald Hall, Wallace McRae and Buck Ramsey riding their horses side by side by side.
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