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photo by Anne Lennox
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Spring's Edge: A
Ranch Wife's Chronicles
Spring's Edge reflects life during one season on the modern-day
Colorado cattle ranch Laurie Buyer once called home. Her diary recounts
the day-to-day toil and the challenge of trying to find time to write
while continuing to help with outdoor chores, cooking, cleaning,
balancing the books, and working for a neighboring ranch.
Chronicling a time of deep personal change, Buyer struggles with
her role as a ranch wife, faces the diminishing vitality of an agricultural
way of life, and nurses her father through a terminal illness. Buyer
tries to bridge the gap between the rural world she cherishes and
the inevitable encroachment of urban sprawl. Meanwhile, her writing
of landscape and weather, livestock and wildlife, loneliness and
intimacy capture the innate rhythms of relationships, the resilience
of love, and the astonishing beauty of life on the land.
6 x 9 272 pages 25 halftones
$18.95
( paperback )
978-0-8263-4391-8
Buy now from U
of New Mexico Press or Amazon.com |
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Selling Guns: Poems
and Songs from Across the High Divide,
Audio CD
Performed by Laurie Wagner Buyer and WC Jameson
To order, email Laurie Wagner Buyer.
Also available through Ghost
Road Press
$15.00 plus $2.50 postage,
2 for $25.00
“Selling Guns” is very well done, right down
to the perfectly placed musical interludes by W.C. Jameson. The
first track, the title poem, is nothing less than astonishing!
It gave me chill bumps. I dare anyone to listen to it and
not be stripped down to their last thread of emotional vulnerability. Laurie
not only shares her story, but she demands that the listener pay
attention with the same searing emotions in which she delivers
her words. Laurie has captured something truly unique in this recording." –Buddy
Case, Arkansas State Champion musician and songwriter |
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See my new poetry
collection, Accidental
Voices online at Amazon Shorts. You
can either download the file and save it to your computer,
or print out this collection, either for just .49.
Feel free to post a review at Amazon.com or send your comments
directly to me.
I
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Open Range:
Poetry of the Reimagined West
Edited by Laurie Wagner Buyer and WC Jameson
The assembled poetry of twenty writers, whose
poems compellingly and memorably represent the modern West.
It recalls those who have lived and those who live now, revealing
tension and harmony between psychological and geographic landscapes.
This collection embodies an authentic, unadulterated spirit.
Open Range: Poetry of the
Reimagined West
Edited by Laurie Wagner Buyer
& WC Jameson
ISBN: 0-978-9456-6-2
Price: $13.95
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Winner of the 2007 SPUR Award for
Best Poetry
Finalist for the 2007 WILLA Literary Award,
Poetry
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Order now from Ghost Road Press
Aross the High Divide is saturated,
confident, honest, and sensual. Wagner Buyer gently coaxes
us to consider our own sense of place and the diversity of
love's many paths...[it] draws us into a tangible world where "We
do love a disservice if we turn away from those in need, even
if they bleed and leave us damaged by their sorrow."
"This book opens with a searing narrative
lament called ‘Selling Guns’ and by the time you
finish the final sequence you will know that Laurie Wagner
Buyer is the real thing, a writer who has lived hard and worked
at her trade. Across the High Divide is both a record of survival
and a triumph of writing.”—David Mason
“I admire Laurie Wagner Buyer for her strength as a person and her gifts
as a writer. She’s a fighter, knows how to achieve her goals, and has
the discipline to do so. This is part of what she has to offer her readers.
Laurie has worked hard to find words that are adequate to her passion, which
is palpable andundeniable.”—Alfred Corn
“In poems touching, tough, and erotic, Laurie Wagner Buyer’s new
collection explores the passion and pain of a woman’s journey into her
sensuality and her quest for a partnership promising self-fulfillment on every
level. Writing from a sensibility that is as feminine as it is unsentimental,
she probes the deepest heart of women’s relationships — their turmoil,
their tenderness and their wrenching fragility.”—Kathlene Sutton
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Side Canyons
"... [a] spiritually angled tour of a revered place, an autobiographical
novel that brings the Grand Canyon's unique beauty to life." --Booklist
"...a book with as many nuances as the human heart." -- Roundup
Magazine
"Sensitively told...a nice touch of humor."--The Denver Post
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Red Colt
Canyon
Includes the Writer's Digest award-winning poem "Until
I Run Out of Thread"
"It is a great pleasure
to be in the company of this talented, generous, and humble
witness." --Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States |
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Glass-Eyed
Paint in the Rain
Finalist for the Colorado Book Award
"There is not an ill-chosen
word, much less a dull line in this extraordinary book." --Rocky
Mountain News |
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| About Laurie Wagner Buyer |
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland and raised on Air
Force bases around the world, Laurie came west from Chicago as
a mail order bride to live a homestead existence on the north fork
of the Flathead River near Glacier National Park. The next 25 years
found her living and working on remote cattle ranches in Montana,
Wyoming, and Colorado.
These isolated areas gave Laurie plenty of inspiration for poetry,
photography, nonfiction articles and essays, memoir, and fiction.
Today, when she's not backpacking or on the road performing, speaking,
presenting workshops or teaching online, she relaxes and writes
in Woodland Park, Colorado. You can learn
more about Laurie's Creative Adventure Guide Service for Writers
here. |
| Contact Info |
For
signed, personalized copies of Laurie's books, please contact
her directly.
Contact Information
125 Rolling Park Drive
Woodland Park CO 80863
719.687.3791
email: luzdelsol@earthlink.net |
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