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Lessons from a Desperado Poet: How to Find Your Way When You Don't Have a Map, How to Win the Game When You Don't Know the Rules, and When Someone ... What They Really Mean Is They Can't Do It.
Lessons from a Desperado Poet How to Find Your Way When You Don't Have a Map How to Win the Game When You Don't Know the Rules and When Someone What They Really Mean Is They Can't Do It Author:Baxter Black 118 tips from America's Cowboy Poet on how to carve a living out of thin air and live with yourself while you do it “Probably the nation?s most successful living poet.? — —New York TimesPart memoir, part how-to, all Baxter Black, Lessons from a Desperado Poet is a humorous, witty take on making a living by doing the right thing and trying everyth... more »ing. According to Baxter Black, success “does not require a genius; it just requires the persistence of a glacier. Remember, often it?s not ability that gets you ahead, it?s reliability. The world is run by those who show up.? A mind-tickling romp through the formation, fermentation, and fruition of the author?s career as a poet in a country where publishing poetry is “practically illegal,? Lessons from a Desperado Poet boldly injects a poem now and again when it is relevant, just to prove a point! It?s instructional for the entrepreneur, inspirational for the ambitious, and entertaining for the teeming masses. Since it is also a story of continuously overcoming the odds, Lessons from a Desperado Poet leaves a trail of self-improvement and motivational tortilla crumbs that readers will follow with delight—before, that is, squirreling them away in their own cerebral pockets for later use.« less