Description
From the Author
The stories in this book chronicle some of the misadventures of my long-time friend, Frank, a rancher on the dry plains of North Texas. Frank is one of the most intelligent people of my acquaintance, but he is also one of the most gently outrageous characters I’ve had the privilege of knowing.
I would tend to doubt Frank’s veracity about these stories except that I’ve been involved in some of these misadventures, myself. I have attempted to imbue these stories with some of the same insouciant tall-taledness with which Frank presented them to me. I hope you find pleasure in both these genuine Texas stories and the illustrations of them by Gary Miller, a great comic cartoonist.
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Extraordinary Insights
"Baldwin tells the reader in his Introduction that he is a layman in the matters of science and philosophy, yet when you read his poems, you become instantly aware that they come from a highly knowledgeable, informed mind on most any subject. His poems bring extraordinary transformations and insights to the myriad of concerns of the human experience. Luminously written poems by one of the most interesting and intelligent poets I have read."
-- Dave Parsons, 2011 Texas Poet Laureate; author of Reaching For Longer Water
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Astonishingly Graceful
"Elegant, astonishingly graceful poems about the ineffable inquiries of life -- the unresolved impulses and curiosities assailing us from all directions -- if we think -- if we care. Michael Baldwin has made powerful magic that feels deeply comforting through articulate and companionable consideration of the great mysteries."
-- Naomi Shihab Nye, prolific poet and novelist; recipient of the 1988 Academy of American Poets' Lavan Award
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Cosmic Experience
"Michael Baldwin has tackled the Big Ones: time, love, fate, spirit, universe. He is unafraid to say he doesn't know, and in that courage, much is surely true of 'the journey we so dream-dread.' Let Baldwin's finely wrought poems take you to the edge of the galaxies and back home through time-space, to thoughtful wisdom and the humility of being human."
-- Jan Seale, 2012 Texas Poet Laureate, author of The Wonder Is
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