Ranch OOP I began to write poetry

I began to write poetry because of my frustration with the inherent limitations of the photograph

Several remarkable men have participated in editing Larry Stanton's work for this volume

Fascination with the life of freedom associated with cowboys and the American West is integral to the mythology of our time and culture

If anything has guided this work beyond the facts of the worlds presented it is what I have come to believe is the spirit of the bikeriders: the spirit of the hand that twists open the throttle on the crackling engines of big bikes and rides them on racetracks or through traffic or

Ranch OOP I began to write poetryFascination with the life of freedom associated with cowboys and the American West is integral to the mythology of our time and culture. In his cinematic novel Ranch, Michael Light reveals as much about the myth as he does about the specific traditional California ranch that he photographs. "Depictions of the West as a vast garden of romantic innocence and male possibility abound, but the claustrophobic violence and domination required to turn the