Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles - Softcover

Buyer, Laurie Wagner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826343910 ISBN 13: 9780826343918

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2008

Synopsis

Spring's Edge reflects life during one season on the modern-day Colorado cattle ranch Laurie Buyer once called home. Her diary recounts the day-to-day toil and the challenge of trying to find time to write while continuing to help with outdoor chores, cooking, cleaning, balancing the books, and working for a neighboring ranch.Chronicling a time of deep personal change, Buyer struggles with her role as a ranch wife, faces the diminishing vitality of an agricultural way of life, and nurses her father through a terminal illness. Buyer tries to bridge the gap between the rural world she cherishes and the inevitable encroachment of urban sprawl. Meanwhile, her writing of landscape and weather, livestock and wildlife, loneliness and intimacy capture the innate rhythms of relationships, the resilience of love, and the astonishing beauty of life on the land.

About this title

About the Author

Laurie Wagner Buyer speaks, performs, and writes about the experiences of women in the American West. Her books include Side Canyons, Open Range: Poetry of the Re-Imagined West, and Across the High Divide, winner of the 2007 Spur Award for Best Poetry. She lives in Woodland Park, Colorado.

From the Inside Flap

Chronicling a time of deep personal change, Buyer struggles with her role as a ranch wife in Colorado.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826343910
• ISBN 13: 9780826343918
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272