Product Description

Winner of the 2007 SPUR Award for Best Poetry from the Western Writers Association

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2254057 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 108 pages

Review
Across the High Divide is a triumph of writing. Laurie Wagner Buyer is the real thing. -- David Mason, author of Arrivals, Storyline Press

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

Laurie has worked hard to find the words that are adequate to her passion, which is palpable and undeniable. -- Alfred Corn, author of Contradictions, Copper Canyon Press

About the Author
When not working in the high country or on the road facilitating writing workshops, poet Laurie Wagner Buyer makes her home in Woodland Park, Colorado. She has two earlier poetry collections, Glass-eyed Paint in the Rain and Red Colt Canyon, as well as a novel, Side Canyons. Laurie has won numerous grants and awards, including a Colorado Council on the Arts Literature Artists Fellowship, and has an MFA from Goddard College.

Customer Reviews

one of the great voices of the modern West
Laurie Buyer has an impeccable ear and voice. The poems are gripping. Selling Guns is a long poem you can't stop reading. This is poetry reborn into something that matters and something we need in our everyday lives. Her new memoir, Spring's Edge, covers some of the subject matter in these poems at more length and in prose, beautifully done. Her struggles with ranch life and the Colorado climate and a disentigrating marriage is high drama. Buyer is one of the great voices of the modern West.

Highest praise...
I invite any book browser to read the opening lines of the first poem in this book, "Selling Guns," and witness the work of the greatest poet of the American West working today. Laurie Buyer's work -- poetry and prose -- is unforgettable.