Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The Naked Truths of Margo Stever’s Bareback Rider

 

Title: Bareback Rider

Author:  Margo Taft Stever

Publisher:  Broadstone Books


 

Copyright:  2025

Number of Pages:  26

Blurbs by:  Sarah Arvio, Susana H. Case, Mervyn Taylor

Key Descriptors: horses, dysfunctional family, climate change

First Sentence:  “Only a few humans.”

Last Sentence: “She died/ trying to save/ a bug.

Comment: In this compact collection of 15 poems, forward motion fuels this work, even when a barricade jump fails and horse and rider fall. This is a set of poems garnished with risk, including the eye-popping image on the front cover that shows a naked woman riding bareback.

 

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