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"Twenty-Sixth Winter" has been selected as the Guardian's 'Poem of the Week'. Also a bit about Elko and cowboy poetry. Interesting perspective from the UK.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog
Nothing stays at the top of their page very long, so you may have to scroll down a ways.
Sulphur Ridge
"Poems from Dry Creek" has been selected 'Outstanding Poetry Book' for 2008 by the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma!! Had to go to Sulphur today in the company of my son to cut a little manwood a) before the rains return and b) to get back down to earth. Thanks all for your support and encouragement.
Page #7: The Geography of Home, Part Two
Notes on books that help us know we're home.
"Do you know John Dofflemyer?" I asked my friend Rob last week, pulling John's new book of poetry out of my bag. Rob and his beautiful wife Sissy Morton of Lemon Cove live on the opposite side of the Kaweah from John and his beautiful wife Robbin. Sharing that geography, I thought there might be a connection. "Yeah," said Rob, "but I didn't know he wrote."
It turns out that Rob and Sissy had been a part of the Dry Creek Citizens Coalition with John and Robbin and many others a few years back, a community pulled together to try to protect the remaining integrity - a sycamore woodland - of that part of our watershed. It struct me that many here in this part of the world may know John as more of an activist and rancher than a writer and publisher. I hope that's about to change.
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