The Dog's Pancake

The Dog's Pancake

Rawlins, Wyoming native Rod Miller draws from a life well lived to bring readers this collection of uniquely western poetry. Miller’s gruff and masculine style combines with an amazing awareness of place to bring readers directly into the heart of cowboy country. “Hard as rock in your shoe, sweet as a Gaelic whiskey, Rod Miller's poems let "the wind tie knots in your hair." Find here a strong, but subtle song of the outlaw body. This is the working of edification in the art of the horse, a gallery of homestead tools gone rusty from conquering the farmer as he nurtures the land, a system tinkered with, lived in, talked to. Among his whiz-bang cowboyisms, Miller holds forth queries that will jolt you from this bucolic landscape that he knows as both the source of true ecstasy and the base of, perhaps, all sorrow.” Jason Clark Wyoming Arts Council's Creative Writing Fellow in poetry year 2020 “This is a delightful bit of work, sometimes whimsical, sometimes prophetic, sometimes irreverent. Well written, and truly poetic. A true slice of Wyoming!” Bob Budd Author of Otters Dance Rod Miller was raised in a pioneer Wyoming ranching family, on a legacy cow outfit in Carbon County. He is a proud graduate of Rawlins High School where he was the Outstanding Wrestler for the Outlaws in 1968. Variously employed as a working cowboy, a bureaucrat, a wheeler-dealer, and a bookseller, Miller lives in semi-retirement in Cheyenne working on his banjo technique. This is his first book of poetry.