Stan Paregien

Big Book of Cowboy Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Big Book of Cowboy Poetry (An eBook)

Stan Paregien has been writing and performing cowboy stories and poems nearly 30 years.

His newest eBook and paperback combo is titled, Big Book of Cowboy Poetry. It is a carefully selected collection of a whopping 203 of his cowboy poems spread over 286 or so pages.

In February of 2020, he published a collection of 40 of his stories under the title, Big Book of Cowboy Stories. It is now available online as both an eBook and as an 8 X 10" paperback. Between the Cowboy Stories book and this Cowboy Poetry book, these companion volumes cover most of his cowboy-themed work since 1991. Late in 2019, he officially retired from performing.

The reader is sure to find a lot to like in this 203-poem collection. Some of them will make you sing and shout and howl at the moon. Others will relax you and get you into a reflective, thoughtful mode. Still others will make the doggone toughest ol' cowboy or truck driver wipe tears from his or her eyes.

Neighbors, here is one major item which separates most cowboy poetry from the standard high-faluttin' stuff: you don't have to guess what these poems really mean. You don't need to sit there with a dictionary at arm's reach, nor do you have to psychoanalyze cowboy poetry.

Stan is one of the best at delivering a poem in a transparent, conversational style. Heck, you may not like a particular poem, but it won't be because the message is unclear.

So, just sit back and enjoy this little stroll through some of the best cowboy poetry ever written. Well, shoot-fire, that's what Cowboy Stan told us to write and we know that is pert-near the truth. Try it. You'll like it. Then, get online and find out where a group of cowboy poets is performing near you. Go experience a genuine cowboy hoot and holler, and the next thing you know you'll be wearing a cowboy hat. Sure 'nuff.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stan Paregien, Sr
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463252611
• Artikelnr.: 70396081

Autorenporträt

Stan Paregien Sr was born in Wapanucka (Johnston County), Oklahoma to Harold and Evelyn (Cauthen) Paregien. The family moved west the year after his birth and he grew up on ranches and farms where his father worked in southern California. One of those places where Harold Paregien worked was the Newhall Ranch, a corporate ranching and farming operation that stretched for miles either side of the highway from the towns of Newhall (now Santa Clarita) to Piru. Stan was already in love with anything cowboy, mostly by watching those great B-Westerns at the local movie theaters. And then on the Newhall Ranch (officially known as the Newhall Land & Farming Company) he and his sister Roberta acquired horses and rode happy trails all over the ranch. Paregien graduated from high school in 1959 at Fillmore, Calif. He married Peggy Ruth Allen from nearby Ventura, Calif., in 1962. They immediately moved to Nashville, Tennessee for Stan to study Speech Communication (and history and Bible) at Lipscomb University. He graduated in 1965. In 1968, he received his master's degree from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Then he completed all 60-hours of the classwork toward a Ph.D. in Speech Communication at the University of Oklahoma (but did not complete his other requirements). He has taken and is still taking continuing education courses in Life Skills through the University of Hard Knocks. He is a former full-time minister, a newspaper reporter and editor, a radio talk show host, a director of mental health facilities in both Texas and Oklahoma, and a salesman of various products. His hobby since 1990 has been writing and performing cowboy poetry and stories. He performed at the annual National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas for a total of some 25 years. Through it all, he has been and is a freelance writer and author. He prefers just calling himself a "storyteller" in the tradition of Mark Twain, Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, Garrison Keillor, Ansel Adams, Norman Rockwell, J. Frank Dobie, Agatha Christie and others. Sometimes he tells stories through narration, sometimes through poetry and often through photography. Stan and Peggy have two adult children, Stan Paregien Jr who lives with his family in the St. Louis area; and Stacy Magness who lives with her family near College Station, Texas. They also have four grandchildren (going on five, with an adoption in progress) and two great-grandchildren. T...