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A cattle rancher, Goodman doesn't write cowboy poetry. He writes serious poetry and his poems are ALIVE. They quicken the senses, sharpen the vision, heighten our delight in life and its creatures. Some prick the conscience. And each reading grows our sensibility of nature’s Great Silent Majority.
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About the Author: |
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Cattleman, poet, mountain-climber, Jack Goodman lives on his farm near Buhl, Idaho, where he raises purebred Dexter cattle. This is his first book of poetry.
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Book Review: |
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Goodman is a natural poet… From the arch humor of “Conversation With A Bear” to the bared grief of “Requiem for Mousie,” these poems are alive with sensuous details, and it is the details that carry the emotion… “Heron,” in its sternly etched clarity, is one of several poems in this collection that come as close to perfection as any of Wendell Berry’s, Robinson Jeffers’, Gary Snyder’s, or Mary Oliver’s.
— Karen Chamberlain, author of Desert of the Heart
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