Glass-Eyed Paint in the Rain: Poetry of the American West
Laurie Wagner Buyer
“I wasn’t born to the land,” Laurie Wagner Buyer says. “I
came West because I fell in love with a man, and I stayed because I fell in
love with the land.”
The land, the people and animals that inhabit that land, and the interconnections of the three—those are the things that Laurie Buyer is passionate about, in her life and in her poetry.
Buyer successfully moves back and forth between cowboy poetry performances and academic/literary recognition. She’s been a featured poet at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, and frequently reads her work on public radio and at chautauquas and gatherings across the West.
“There is not an ill-chosen word, much less a dull
line, in this extraordinary book. …she is a splendid poet, and that
is enough to say.”
•• Dale Walker,
Rocky Mountain News
“The result is wonderful; her poetry is of ranch
life distilled in just the right details, both narratives and the lyric tradition
of the ‘small,
still moment.’”
•• Paulette
Jiles, San Antonio Express-News
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