Married into It

Patricia Frolander
Cover artwork by Sarah Rogers

Married into It is a collection of poems written by Wyoming rancher Patricia Frolander. This book shows the struggles and harshness of ranching life, along with the value of community and family. Frolander draws the reader into her life where the beauty and vastness of the Wyoming landscape combine with the partnership of husband and wife. These poems show the versatility of a woman rancher, who tends her children, livestock and garden, drives equipment, puts up hay, cooks, fences, and all the while nurtures the community. Married into It is an engaging work and will leave no reader disappointed.

“Patricia Frolander writes of a place and way of life where disaster can be measured in seconds and where the most harrowing loss can emerge from the simplest of mistakes. Frolander understands just how indifferent the world is to human presence, but she makes of that understanding a quiet grandeur. Against indifference, these poems insist on redemptive beauty and the power of relationship. They are unstinting and clear-eyed, poems about the world as-it-is and about how human beings live not in but with it, and with each other, in both endurance and mutual support.”
•• Kent Meyers, Twisted Tree, www.kentmeyersbooks.com

“Patricia Frolanders’s tough and tender poems introduce us to the history of a community and a loving family. She portrays the labors of ranch life in exquisite and sometimes bone-chilling detail, explaining why both "Commitment" and "Denial" mean so much. Her "Attitude" makes the difference between success and failure, and she finds joy in every day .”
•• Linda M. Hasselstrom, No Place Like Home, www.windbreakhouse.com

• 978-0931271-96-0 • 80 pages • trade paper • $12.95 Order Now!