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Graining the mare : the poetry of ranch women / edited and with photographs by Teresa Jordan.

1st ed.

Salt Lake City : Gibbs Smith, ©1994.

152 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

This anthology includes a blending of nationally known authors such as Gretel Ehrlich, Linda Hasselstrom, Linda Hogan, and Luci Topahanso; performers at the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko: Linda Hussa, Thelma Poirier, Gwen Petersen, Marie Smith, Myrt Wallis, Sue Wallis and others; and some relative newcomers. Through short biographical sketches, Teresa Jordan introduces us to the poets and sets the stage for our understanding the emotions of their hearts. Subjects of the poems are wide-ranging, and even though these women tell about events on the ranch, they are talking of experiences that are common to us all. They tell of loneliness and challenges, of sweet births and gut-wrenching deaths, of horses they have loved and livestock they have nurtured. They tell the stories of each other and draw from the strength of women who have gone it alone in the harsh seasons of life. Woven through the poetry is a self-determined sisterhood of voices, filled with humor, passion and faith.

Ranch life -- Poetry.

Women ranchers -- Poetry.

American poetry -- Women authors.

West (U.S.) -- Poetry.

Poetry.

Jordan, Teresa.

Sally Bates -- Ride to the Cattle / Virginia Bennett -- For Grampa -- The Tough Goodbye / Doris Bircham -- Coffee Row -- weaning time -- After the Funeral -- leaving / Afton Bloxham -- What Counts Most / Judy Blunt -- Sisters -- Josephine Hall -- When Cowboys Cry -- At the Stockman Bar, Where the Men Fall in Love, and the Women Just Fall / Laurie Wagner Buyer -- Gathering Mint -- Purple Tulips -- Eight Rabbits / Jane Candia Coleman -- Flowering Almond -- Old Pete -- Poor Will's Widow -- Sandhill Cranes / Peggy Simson Curry -- When Words First Spoke to Me -- The Hunt -- Jack Patton / Ruth Daniels -- Cowpath -- City Cousin / Lyn DeNaeyer -- Reflection -- Breakin' Even / Elizabeth Ebert -- Store Candy -- An Ordinary Morning -- Song From The Day the Pump Broke / Gretel Ehrlich -- The Orchard -- For David -- Born in the Afternoon / Martha Downer Ellis -- Happy Birthday -- Never Let Us Think / June Brander Gilman and Helen Kay Brander -- People Will Talk / Peggy Godfrey -- Old Vogal -- Roland -- Perfect Wife / Audrey Hankins -- Relapse / Linda Hasselstrom -- Driving Into a Storm -- Seasons in South Dakota -- Rancher Roulette -- Planting Peas -- Beef Eater / Joan Hoffman -- New Ranch Wife -- The Lonely, Empty, Prairie Sky -- Helen -- I Remember Being Beautiful -- Remembering Willie Mae / Linda Hogan -- The Other Voices -- Left Hand Canyon -- Celebration: Birth of a Colt / Linda Hussa -- Homestead in Hell Creek Canyon -- Under the Hunter Moon -- Homesteaders, Poor and Dry -- The Widow Olson -- The Blue Filly / Margot Liberty -- Evening, Four Mile -- Rain Prayer -- Epitaph / Jo-Ann Mapson -- Graining the Mare -- Spooking the Horses -- Tell Us Again / Mela D. Mlekush -- The Rummage Sale -- Gentleman of the Prairie / Jennifer Olds -- A Wild One Goes -- Blinding the Infidel / Verlena Orr -- Our Mother's Mother -- First Job -- Prophecy / Gwen Petersen -- A Tall Bush -- A Cussin' Woman -- Those Damned Wire Gates / Thelma Poirier -- burrowing owl -- old coyote hunting man -- Madame Caillier -- sorting cattle -- at the branding -- grasslander / Lisa Quinlan -- You Ask / Penelope Reedy -- If I Left -- Taco Sauce: 1982 / Jeane Rhodes -- Berry Me Not / Edith Rylander -- Reaching In -- Dumb Animals -- The Firstborn -- Watching the Stuff on the News -- Out to Grass / Marie W. Smith -- Finding -- The Diagnoses -- Via Satellite -- Catalogs / Luci Tapahonso -- Yes, It Was My Grandmother -- Sheepherder Blues -- Raisin Eyes -- In 1864 / Myrt Wallis -- Fear -- Bittercreek Women -- Thaw / Sue Wallis -- Coyote Bitch -- Timothy Draw -- Lead Mare -- To The Gauchas Of Salta -- Mama Lessons.

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