Research Catalog

Title

Georgia cowboy poets / compiled and edited by David Fillingim ; foreword by Doris Daley.

Publication

Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Fillingim, David, 1960-
• Daley, Doris.

Description

202 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Cowboys > Poetry
• Cowboys' writings, American > Georgia
• American poetry > Georgia
• Cowboys' writings, American > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Note

• "Featuring Joel Hayes, Doc Stovall, Jerry Warren, and others."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The cowboy poetry phenomenon ; Keeping Georgia a western state: The Georgia cowboy poets / Essays by David Fillingim -- Poems by the Georgia cowboy poets: -- Doc Stovall: Comparisons ; On being a cowboy poet ; The search ; Barbed wire ; If trails could talk ; Mountain camp ; Cowboy Christmas Eve ; Reflections of an Irish cowboy ; Wild broncos and dust ; Epitaph ; Pa-pa ; Pa-pa's garden ; Memories of daddy -- Jerry Warren: Tonight I rode the rim rock ; Oh Texas! ; Dinner on the ground ; Taming the chute boss ; Cashin' in on cattle ; I'll just ride west ; The painting ; The price of change ; Reflections -- Joel Hayes: Gathering cattle on Sweetwater ; Catchin' the red bull ; In the shadow of the wagon ; Top hand buckaroo ; Full value ; Computer ranching ; Marion Parsons gets married ; Miss Hattie ; Choose your ride ; Choosing ; Keep her waving free ; Memories ; For Oren -- Charlie Holloway: What is cowboy poetry? ; North wind headed south ; Must'a been a cracker ; Battles --^
• The curator -- The Sunday service widdin' ; Lucky ; No respect ; Dear Santa ; A cowboy's advice ; Thanks for the good life -- John Joyner: The spirit of the west ; The dead man's hand ; Charlie Russell ; The old prospector ; Bodacious, the rodeo bull ; The wine tasting ; Grace -- Nadine Mattison: Introduction to "Irish B. Sting" / by Bill Mattison ; Irish B. Sting ; No one gets to be a cowboy forever ; The night B'fore Christmas -- Mark Berryman: Ode to the cowboy cook ; Love at first sight ; The last cowboy ; A cowboyish "Hai-y'all-ku" -- Tom Kerlin: Cowboy from the south ; Finding cattle midst a winter snow storm ; It ain't always fun in the ranching business ; Getting cattle to market, then and now ; Waiting on the cows to come up on the Vowers Ranch ; Shorty's last Christmas -- Ray Barker: Cowboyin' a la Louisiane! ; A real cowboy ; One cold and windy prairie night ; Boudreaux's bull ; The lessons go on --^
• David fillingim: I've never been a cowboy man ; Wishes ; Genesis 1, if a cowboy poet had wrote the bible ; Cowl ; On Georgia cowboy poetry.

ISBN

• 9780881461831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0881461830 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010001210

OCLC

499742573

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library