Books
| Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal | |
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Visit the Infinite Possibilities Website Laurie Wagner Buyer, award winning poet and author of Spring’s Edge: A Ranch Wife’s Chronicles, wrote a haiku each day for a year. The experience was empowering. This book brings these 365 haiku to readers in the form of Laurie s year-long collection, Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal. Learn from and enjoy Laurie’s haiku, but just as importantly, use this book as a journal. The practice of journaling goes back centuries; and now there is increasing evidence of the benefits in terms of stress reduction, critical self-reflection, and problem solving. Try journaling as your path to creating your own infinite possibilities. This is a perfect gift for friends or loved ones. Price: $12.95 Paperback: 168 pages Publisher: Filter Press LLC; 1 edition (September 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0865410976 ISBN-13: 978-0865410978 Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches Buy Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal |
| Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles | |
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Finalist for the Colorado Book Award for Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles, 2009 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 |
| Open Range: Poetry of the Re-imagined West Edited by Laurie Wagner Buyer and WC Jameson | |
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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 Open Range: Poetry of the Re-imagined West Edited by Laurie Wagner Buyer & WC Jameson ISBN: 0-978-9456-6-2 Price: $13.95 Purchase: Open Range: Poetry of the Re-imagined West  |
| Side Canyons | |
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Laurie is invited by her old friend, Angie, to go on a river trip through the Grand Canyon with three other women. She is reluctant to leave her Montana ranch and taciturn husband. Making the trip could jeopardize their marriage, but she decides to go when he doesn't seem to object, and Angie insists. Laurie brings her journal, and she recounts her journey with great emotion as she feels herself connecting to her new surroundings with the help of the expert guides. Laurie feels herself expanding and reaching out to the land, the beauty of which the guides truly understand, but the camaraderie among the women starts to deteriorate, and Laurie finds that she may not understand her friend Angie as well as she thought. The vivid details bring the landscape and the thrill of rafting into focus as each traveler is affected differently by the environment, experiences echoed in the poetry Buyer includes in this spiritually angled tour of a revered place, an autobiographical novel that brings the Grand Canyon's unique beauty to life. Patty Engelmann Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Side Canyons Hardcover-Five Star $24.95 Softcover - Five Star $14.95 ISBN: 978-1410402431 Available From Laurie: Email Laurie Mara Purl's review |
| Across the High Divide | |
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Winner of the 2007 Spur Award, Best Poetry Finalist for the 2007 WILLA Literary Award, Poetry Across the High Divide ISBN 0-9771272-5-7 Trade Paperback, $13.95 Order now from Ghost Road Press Across 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." |
| Red Colt Canyon | |
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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 |
| Glass-eyed Paint in the Rain | |
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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 |
CD
| Selling Guns: Poems and Songs from Across the High Divide, Audio CD | |
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Performed by Laurie Wagner Buyer and WC Jameson To order, email Laurie Wagner Buyer. $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 |