Roadrunner Cowboy

About the Book

This book is a composite of fact, fiction, and fantasy. Some poems are a mixture of all three. Credit for the inspiration must go to Baxter Black, to my mind the greatest of the Cowboy Poets.

In December of 2004, I had just finished re-reading one of Baxter’s books when the idea came to me to maybe write a poetic birthday card for my darling Lavenia. The idea had come, but as hard as I tried, the words did not. I then recalled an old author’s adage, “Write about what you know.”

That day I penned “Last Big Wreck”; the next day “Crossed Over”; and the next day “Mogollon Roan”. The rest, as they say, is history. And yes, she did get her birthday card.

Award

About the Author

Jeff Page was born at the beginning of both the Dust Bowl and The Great Depression in Creek County, Oklahoma. Man! What a great way to start a life. At nine years of age, unable to abide the conditions further, his family moved to Arizona, where things were a little better. His father and two older brothers, at least, had gainful employment. The poem “Prologue” tells most of the rest of the story. For the last twenty-six years he has resided on a small place in the Estancia Valley of New Mexico with a couple of horses, a few calves, and a million or so Gophers!

He started writing poetry, seriously in the seventy-fifth year of his life. In 2005 he was awarded the Editor Choice Award from the International Library of Poetry for his poem “Sound System”.