Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
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Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West is a new poetry anthology edited by Laurie Wagner Buyer and WC Jameson. They have assembled the work 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.
A poem from the anthology Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West, edited by Laurie Wagner Buyer and WC Jameson, has won a SPUR award for best poem. The poet is John Duncklee; the poem is “El Corrido de Antonio Beltran.” We have this poem available as a free PDF on the GRP web site.
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
Poem Samples
Collage with Dark Dog
The prism you tie with thread to the kitchen
windowshade is cutglass, a small jewel to separate
the colors of light not yet in our winter sky.
From each side of the table, we taste out morning tea,
wait and watch the dark dog separate itself from blackness,
move into the fresh path where last evening we stopped shoveling.
He pauses, quizzes the sudden wall
of snow where we changed our minds
and went without words to separate beds.
Now I see your early face on mine,
each refl ected twice in a doublepaned window
as your spinning bauble facets the collage.
Once now for your side, once then for mine,
Dark-Dog-With-Path
all galleried under a chain-swung light bulb.
–Bob Cherry
