|
| |
The Back Side Shooter
by S. Dale “Sierra” Seawright
Book of Cowboy Poetry
The Back Side Shooter, written by S. Dale “Sierra” Seawright, is a pithy little book of cowboy poetry -- hilarious in places, touching in others. The author reaches into experiences common to everyone and finds something extraordinary and charming to boot.
Seawright's talent is natural and raw, reminiscent of the rhythms of Loretta Lynn, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. He embraces life, teases it and makes love to it. His poems are stories about people and places and situations that make us smile or cry depending on the circumstances. Take for example Say Hun -- Or The Old Cowboy Said, which is a clever catalogue of all the things that can go wrong in life, from overdue mortgages to wells gone dry -- when everything seems hopeless, the prospect of new life expressed in simple language, tender and sweet -- "Say Hun -- Are you getting fat?"
Another poem that lingers in the mind long after you put aside this little tome is, Sundown on the Prairie, which begins with "I watched the sun go down last night from high up on a hill. I watched and listened till the day died out and everything was still." Simple and mellow, it takes the reader to those moments that are just too delicious to forget.
Then there is Woman-kind where the cowboy plaintively expostulates on the difficulty of living with and the impossibility of living without a woman. "The more I learn about women," he says, "The more I love my horse!"
Other personal favorites are Whiskey Joe and Do You Remember Me?
Seawright performs his poems at nineteenth century western reenactments in Oklahoma, poetry readings and other state and local events.
Title: The Back Side Shooter
Author: S. Dale “Sierra” Seawright
Publisher: S. Dale “Sierra” Seawright
ISBN: 0965270203
Review written by: Joyce Faulkner
Reviewer's Rating:8
Reader's Rating: 9.50
Reader's Votes: 2
Talk to other readers about this story.
|
|
|
|
|
|
