Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles

Spring's Edge reflects life during one season on the modern-day Colorado cattle ranch Laurie Buyer once called home. Her diary recounts the day-to-day toil and the challenge of trying to find time to write while continuing to help with outdoor chores, cooking, cleaning, balancing the books, and working for a neighboring ranch.

Chronicling a time of deep personal change, Buyer struggles with her role as a ranch wife, faces the diminishing vitality of an agricultural way of life, and nurses her father through a terminal illness. Buyer tries to bridge the gap between the rural world she cherishes and the inevitable encroachment of urban sprawl. Meanwhile, her writing of landscape and weather, livestock and wildlife, loneliness and intimacy capture the innate rhythms of relationships, the resilience of love, and the astonishing beauty of life on the land.

6 x 9 272 pages 25 halftones
$18.95
( paperback )
978-0-8263-4391-8

Buy now from U of New Mexico Press or Amazon.com

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Selling Guns: Poems and Songs from Across the High Divide, Audio CD

Performed by Laurie Wagner Buyer and WC Jameson

To order, email Laurie Wagner Buyer. Also available through Ghost Road Press; $15.00 plus $2.50 postage, 2 for $25.00

“Selling Guns” is very well done, right down to the perfectly placed musical interludes by W.C. Jameson. The first track, the title poem, is nothing less than astonishing! It gave me chill bumps.  I dare anyone to listen to it and not be stripped down to their last thread of emotional vulnerability.  Laurie not only shares her story, but she demands that the listener pay attention with the same searing emotions in which she delivers her words. Laurie has captured something truly unique in this recording."  –Buddy Case, Arkansas State Champion musician and songwriter

See my new poetry collection, Accidental Voices online at Amazon Shorts. You can either download the file and save it to your computer, or print out this collection, either for just forty-nine cents. Feel free to post a review at Amazon.com or send your comments directly to me. I hope you enjoy the poems.

Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West Edited by Laurie Wagner Buyer and WC Jameson

The assembled poetry of twenty writers, whose poems compellingly and memorably represent the modern West. It recalls those who have lived and those who live now, revealing tension and harmony between psychological and geographic landscapes. This collection embodies an authentic, unadulterated spirit.

Open Range: Poetry of the
Reimagined West
Edited by Laurie Wagner Buyer
& WC Jameson
ISBN: 0-978-9456-6-2
Price: $13.95

Winner of the 2007 Spur Award, Best Poetry
Finalist for the 2007 WILLA Literary Award, Poetry

Across the High Divide
ISBN 0-9771272-5-7
Trade Paperback, $13.95

Order now from Ghost Road Press

Aross the High Divide is saturated, confident, honest, and sensual. Wagner Buyer gently coaxes us to consider our own sense of place and the diversity of love's many paths...[it] draws us into a tangible world where "We do love a disservice if we turn away from those in need, even if they bleed and leave us damaged by their sorrow."

Side Canyons

ISBN 1-59414-115-0
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Side Canyons
"... [a] spiritually angled tour of a revered place, an autobiographical novel that brings the Grand Canyon's unique beauty to life." --Booklist

"...a book with as many nuances as the human heart." -- Roundup Magazine

Red Colt Canyon
Available from Laurie

Red Colt Canyon
Includes the Writer's Digest award-winning poem "Until I Run Out of Thread"

"It is a great pleasure to be in the company of this talented, generous, and humble witness." --Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States

Glass-eyed Paint
in the Rain

Order from High Plains Press
or Amazon.com

Glass-Eyed Paint in the Rain
Finalist for the Colorado Book Award
"There is not an ill-chosen word, much less a dull line in this extraordinary book." --Rocky Mountain News