Bøger af Bruce Roseland

In this poetic diary, national award-winning poet Bruce Roseland shares his mother's journey from assisted living, to nursing home, to the end of her life. Shunning false bravado and overwrought emotion, painting no heroes or villains, guiding us through the confusion, pain, and joy, he provides a vehicle of strength and healing, a story that reminds us we are all in this together. We are not alone.

WINNER OF THE 2019 WILL ROGERS MEDALLION IN POETRY! Bruce Roseland's first book, "The Last Buffalo," published in 2006, won the 2007 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry, and "A Prairie Prayer," published in 2008, won the 2009 Will Rogers Medallion. Now he returns with another outstanding contribution to the poetry of rural America with "Cowman," detailing the wonders, joys, hardships, and good times of ranching on the northern plains.

Heart of the Prairie is both a necessary call to save a fragile ecosystem, as well as a reminder that poetry can become a type of lyrical memoir. His work captures the daily beauty and hardship of ranching life from the frost of a windless day, to watching a gopher, to finding meadowlarks frozen in a snowbank, to the hard work of having to shoot a sickly bull-'I find myself saying "I'm sorry,"/ as I touch off the rounds."' Told with a hawk's clear eye and a generous heart, Roseland invites us onto his land, he shows us the wide horizon of decades, and he laments the vanishing grasslands. Heart of the Prairie is a nurturing of words that tells the story of weathered hands tending weathered, beloved, earth. - Patrick Hicks,