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This little book of poems has led a productive life since it was hatched in 2011. One of its poems, “Tabula Rasa,” won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in 2012. "Things a Cowboy Sees and Other Poems" won the Fred Olds Poetry Award from Westerners International in 2011. The Academy of Western Artists christened it Best Poetry Book with the Buck Ramsey Award in 2013. When the publisher, Chila Woychik, decided to shutter Port Yonder Press to pursue other dreams I was not willing to see the book go out of print. But I did not want to become a publisher myself, although that is an option chosen by more and more poets and writers nowadays. Not me. So, what to do? Pen-L Publishing to the rescue! Duke and Kimberly Pennell agreed to include "Things a Cowboy Sees and Other Poems" in their growing catalog of good books. I got to know and like Duke and Kimberley when they published Goodnight Goes Riding and Other Poems. (That book, too, won the Westerners International Fred Olds Poetry Award in 2014, and one of its poems, “Song of the Stampede,” was a Finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award in 2015.) I got to know them better and like them more as we put together a collection of my short fiction, "The Death of Delgado and Other Stories" (whose title story won a WWA Spur Award in 2012 and “A Border Dispute” was a Spur Award Finalist in 2006). All thanks to Duke and Kimberly and Pen-L Publishing for keeping "Things a Cowboy Sees and Other Poems" alive. And hats off to all the readers, reciters, editors, and others who have helped keep my ongoing efforts to become a writer alive. —Rod Miller, 2017 www.writerRodMiller.com Miller’s work stands out like a Thoroughbred in a pen full of ponies. His wry humor works the same way that Baxter Black’s does—it saves us from taking ourselves too seriously. — Gary Vorhes, former Editor-in-Chief Western Horseman magazine A true westerner to the core and one who’s “made a hand” as a scribe as well, Rod Miller is that rare breed who blends artistic sensibility with cowboy attitude. He’s funny and serious and hits all the marks in-between, and always in that high-quality, polished verse he writes—the kind that looks as effortless as a great bronc ride, but is every bit as tough to pull off as that ride was. — Jesse Mullins, Jr., founding editor, American Cowboy magazine Reading Rod Miller’s poems is like getting a giant box of candy . . . I always look forward to his contributions. I particularly enjoy the ironic humor and admire his sophis-ticated use of the language, which he somehow manages to present in a completely accessible way. We get many poems that have the feeling of being “dashed off.” And then we get poems like Rod’s! It’s a pleasure. — Margo Metegrano CowboyPoetry.com
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Miller’s work stands out like a Thoroughbred in a pen full of ponies. His wry humor works the same way that Baxter Black’s does—it saves us from taking ourselves too seriously.
— Gary Vorhes, former Editor-in-Chief, Western Horseman magazine
A true westerner to the core and one who’s “made a hand” as a scribe as well, Rod Miller is that rare breed who blends artistic sensibility with cowboy attitude. He’s funny and serious and hits all the marks in-between, and always in that high-quality, polished verse he writes—the kind that looks as effortless as a great bronc ride, but is every bit as tough to pull off as that ride was.
— Jesse Mullins, Jr., founding editor, American Cowboy magazine
Reading Rod Miller’s poems is like getting a giant box of candy . . . I always look forward to his contributions. I particularly enjoy the ironic humor and admire his sophis-ticated use of the language, which he somehow manages to present in a completely accessible way. We get many poems that have the feeling of being “dashed off.” And then we get poems like Rod’s! It’s a pleasure.
— Margo Metegrano, CowboyPoetry.com
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- PublisherPen-L Publishing
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1683131185
- ISBN 13 9781683131182
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages109
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