Former bareback rider and now full-time poet Paul Zarzyski has collected some of his best-known poems from the last 25 years and matched them with Barbara Van Cleve's photographs of rodeo and ranching to create a powerful and memorable volume. As Teresa Jordan writes in the book's foreword, "Poems and broncs are crucibles where a lifetime of yearning and passion distill into something pure. Eight seconds or twenty lines: The great rides, like the great poems, take a lifetime to create and are both ephemeral and lasting."