Cowboy Poetry Contemporary Verse - Hardcover

Larry McWhorter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0966209133 ISBN 13: 9780966209136

Publisher: Cowboy Miner Productions, 2000

Synopsis

Cowboy Poetry

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About the Author:

Larry McWhorter grew up in the Texas Panhandle where he was taught the cowboy way of life by men who knew what the word "cowboy" really means. He had been away from punching cows for several years before he began writing about the life he had loved and lived. Names like Clark, Knibbs, Kiskaddon, and Barker, who are now his heroes, had no meaning for him then. He just knew he wanted to put down into words how he felt about a way of life he saw being misrepresented. That was over ten years ago. In that time, Larry has been an important part of the revival of the love of our Western Heritage. He has performed his poetry all over the nation and has been published in various magazines and anthologies. In 1998, Larry was named Cowboy Poet of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists, and in 1999, his album, The Open Gate, was named Cowboy Poetry Album of the Year by the Academy. When he is not performing or writing, Larry spends his time training horses with "special needs." In his own words, he likes being able to take time with a horse without some "old codger" hanging over the fence yelling, "Just get on the son of a buck!"

Larry makes his home in Weatherford, Texas with his wife, Andrea, and daughter, Abigail.

Review:

From reading Larry's book, one could guess he has listened to a lot of old men. Nostalgia hangs over his poetry like unshed tears. The verse that best captures his sentimental respect for them says: The other boys called him an old windbag. His tales just an old man's prattle. But there was a time he could do a days work On horses we couldn't even saddle. --Baxter Black, Cowboy Poet, Benson, Arizona

There are truck-driving cowboys, drugstore cowboys, and there are working cowboys. Larry McWhorter is a working cowboy who also happens to write poetry with a gritty reality that reaches other working cowboys where they live. He does not sugar-coat the hard knocks and disappointments that plague the horseback life, but he also understands the quiet satisfactions that bind men to forever. --Elmer Kelton, Western Author, San Angelo, Texas.

Because he is one, Larry McWhorter understands the cowboy's language, wit, ethics and loves. But I believe it is his philosophy that makes him the great storyteller, teacher and poet the he is. There is as much in these poems as you may wish to know. --Waddie Mitchell, Cowboy Poet, Elko Nevada

About this edition

• Publisher: Cowboy Miner Productions
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0966209133
• ISBN 13: 9780966209136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190