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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