Buckoffs and Broken Barriers

<p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ROD MILLER</strong></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Buckoffs and Broken Barriers: Rodeo Poems</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the result of decades of experience as a rodeo competitor and spectator. The poems capture the thoughts feelings actions and excitement of life in and around the arena. From comedic accounts of wrecks to thoughtful musings on the tragedy and despair sometimes associated with the sport you'll get a taste of rodeo as vivid and memorable as a mouthful of arena dirt following a buckoff.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rod Miller is a very talented wordsmith who brings out the humor danger mystique and drama of cow people and their sport. After reading many of his poems that depict his experiences as a rodeo cowboy it's a damn good thing he's a hand with a pen. -</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ty Murray</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 9-time World Champion Rodeo Cowboy</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rod Miller first crossed my radar when I became the editor of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Western Horseman</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> magazine for which Rod had been a frequent contributor authoring poems and feature articles of rodeo athletes musicians artists and frontier history. His poetry is infused with a genuineness that elevates his work above the medium's predictable yarns and gives the reader a front-row seat at a captivating reality-based dramedy. -A.J. Mangum former editor </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Western Horseman</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ranch & Reata</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> magazines</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A true westerner to the core and one who's made a hand as a scribe as well Rod Miller is that rare breed who blends artistic sensibility with cowboy attitude. He's funny and serious and hits all the marks in-between and always in that high-quality polished verse he writes-the kind that looks as effortless as a great bronc ride but is every bit as tough to pull off as that ride was. -Jesse Mullins Jr. founding editor </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>American Cowboy</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> magazine</span></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p></p>