Lessons from a Desperado Poet: How to Find Your Way When You Don't Have a Map, How to Win the Game When You Don't Know the Rules, and When Someone Sa Paperback - 2012
by Baxter Black
Part memoir, part how-to, all America's Cowboy Poet Baxter Black, "Lessons from a Desperado Poet" is a humorous, witty take on making a living by doing the right thing and trying everything.
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Part memoir, part how-to, all Baxter Black, "Lessons from a Desperado Poet" is a humorous, witty take on making a living by doing the right thing and trying everything. According to Black--who provides 118 life lessons through the course of the book--success, at least in the form to be had by working outside the system, "does not take a genius; it just requires the persistence of a glacier. . . . Remember, often it is not ability, it's reliability. The world is run by those who show up."
A mind-tickling romp through the formation, fermentation, and fruition of the author's career as a poet in a country where publishing poetry is "practically illegal," "Lessons from a Desperado Poet" is instructional for the entrepreneur, inspirational for the ambitious, and entertaining for the teeming masses. In three sections--"How I Learned,""What I Learned," and "Why I Was Able to Learn"--the man the New York Times called "probably the nation's most successful living poet" takes us through everything from his "Basque Infusion" (i.e., the lessons he learned working for a hard-headed Basque) and how he became a self-sustaining poet, to such chapters as "Me and NPR," "How to Control Your Tech Addiction," and "Controlling Your Own Life--Big Decisions Like Turning Down Johnny Carson."
Since it is also a story of continuously overcoming the odds, " Lessons from a Desperado Poet" leaves a trail of self-improvement and motivational tortilla crumbs that readers will follow with delight--before, that is, squirreling them away in their own cerebral pockets for later use.
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- Title Lessons from a Desperado Poet: How to Find Your Way When You Don't Have a Map, How to Win the Game When You Don't Know the Rules, and When Someone Sa
- Author Baxter Black
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Two Dot Books
- Date 2012-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780762782987 / 0762782986
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (20.07 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Country/Cowboy
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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