Still Rhymin' on the Range

Don Precosky teaches English at the College of New Caledonia and is the
co-editor of Four Realities: Poets of Northern B.C.

Like folk art, this collection of poems about cowboys is accessible,
entertaining, endearing, often charming, and betrays a naiveté about
life and creativity. It is replete with comfortable clichés that depict
a comfortable world where nobody is going to ask any embarrassing
questions.

The illustrations by award-winning cowboy cartoonist Wendy Liddle are
the appropriate accompaniment for the poems; they have enough detail to
provide the appearance of reality, but are too sketchy to distract us
into serious musings.