ATDTDA (12) - Cowboy/Wild West Poets & R-girls?

[David Morris]

I don't understand Pynchon's big slam of Cowboy Poets, which seem to
be the very height of "bad taste?"

http://www.cowboypoetry.com/whatis.htm

What is Cowboy Poetry?  Who is a Cowboy Poet?

What are your opinions?
Is cowboy poetry only rhymed, metered verse?
Must poets be cowboys or ranchers?
Should it be written only for recitation?
Has cowboy poetry lost its way or is it evolving?
These questions often spark controversy, and we're interested in what
everyone has to say.
We welcome your short submissions on these subjects.  We hope for
serious, considered submissions that further the debate.  We welcome
documented quotations, your opinions and responses to posted opinions.
Just email us.
We'll post some of those submissions here at CowboyPoetry.com.


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American cowboys have been writing poetry for more than a century.
This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of
the Western Heroes and serves as an imaginative form of oral
history.Cowboy Poets travels to the big sky country of Nevada,
Montana, and Arizona to explore the tradition and to introduce three
working cowboys and the poetry they write about the lifestyle and land
they love. Cowboy Poets profiles three cowboy reciters, Waddie
Mitchell, Slim Kite and Wally McRae, representing three different
aspects of the cowboy-poetry tradition. Waddie Mitchell is a young
working cowboy who runs a small ranch in northern Nevada; his flashy
buckaroo clothes show the world that he is proud to be a cowboy. Slim
Kite is a retired cowboy of the old school. He believes that there is
no more cow-punching, not the way he learned it. His poems, all
learned from other reciters over the past sixty years, connect him
with generations of cowboys and the way of life he loved. Wally McRae
is a third-generation rancher in northern Montana, a
gentleman-philosopher, who uses his considerable poetic gifts to make
personal statements about continuity within the ranching community and
the strength of cowboy traditions under siege in the modern world.

Anybody got a clue about "R-girls?"