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Books

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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

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


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 hope you enjoy the poems.

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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.


Contributors: Mike Blakely, Laurie Wagner Buyer, Jon Chandler, Bob Cherry, Gaydell Collier, John Duncklee, Dan Guenther, Linda Hussa, WC Jameson, Celinda Kaelin, Page Lambert, Max McCoy, Red Shuttleworth, George Sibley, Larry D. Thomas, Mark Todd, Lori Van Pelt, Dale L. Walker, Richard S. Wheeler, and Paul Zarzyski

 


Winner of the 2007 SPUR Award for Best Poetry

Finalist for the 2007 WILLA Literary Award, Poetry

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Across the High Divide
ISBN 0-9771272-5-7
Trade Paperback, $13.95

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

ISBN 1-59414-115-0
Order from Five Star Publishing
1.800.223.1244 option 4
and from amazon.com


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


books

Red Colt Canyon
Available from Laurie


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

Order from High Plains Press

or amazon.com


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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Laurie's 2008 Calendar of Events

Monday, March 17, 7 pm
WC Jameson
"Pickin' and Grillin'" @ Luckenbach, TX
For more information, contact:
abbey@luckenbachtexas.com

Monday, April 24 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Poetry Workshop, Golden Public Library
1019 10thSt, Golden, CO
friendsofjcpl.org
303.275.2240

Thursday - Sunday, June 5-8
with WC Jameson
Writing the Rockies Conference
Western State College
Gunnison, CO
For more information, contact:
mtodd@westernstate.edu
970.943.2016

May 19-June 1
With W.C. Jameson
Moki Mac River Trip
Grand Canyon, Arizona

Friday, July 11-Sunday, July 13
"Exploring Internal and External Landscapes" with W.C. Jameson
A rustic adventure workshop at
La Bonte Canyon Ranch
Douglas, Wyoming 82633
Contact:  Susan Stoltz
307.277.6460
http://womenoutwest.com/

 

About Laurie Wagner Buyer

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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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