PRAISE FOR BAXTER BLACK

“He could make a dead man sit up and laugh!”

—Washington Post Book World

“If I were asked to name a couple of poets who make a nice steady living off their poetry, the names that would come to my mind are Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Baxter Black.”

—Calvin Trillin

“Humorist and poet of the ranch and barnyard, Baxter Black has variously been dubbed a latter-day Will Rogers, the dean of cowboy bards, and the Art Buchwald of the Stetson-and-Levi’s crowd.”

—Christian Science Monitor

“Perhaps the most recognizable man in agriculture today is not the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, not the head of the National Cattleman’s Beef Association, not even the point leader in the PRCA. It is, in fact, a mustached former large animal veterinarian and part-time roper who ‘just likes to tell stories.’”

—TV Hagenah, Ag Journal

“Bax is a great writer . . . a voice from out there that needs to be heard.”

—Bob Edwards, NPR

“He sees things that nobody else sees. He has an imagination that is unparalleled.”

—Pauline Arrillaga, quoted by Red Stegall, Associated Press