| Wyatt Earp Contributor(s): Current, Alternating (Editor), Beckett, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1946580171 ISBN-13: 9781946580177 Publisher: Alternating Current OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Epic |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5" W x 8" (0.35 lbs) 140 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wyatt Earp is more than a legend; he's the embodiment of the American Wild West. It's easy to reduce a man of such stature to mere stereotypes and iconoclasm, to leave out the women who inspired him, or to rely on the slander of those he defeated; but forgoing the myths, wordsmith Larry Beckett skirts the overwrought icon and gives us instead the aches, loves, and morals of the flesh-and-blood human. This poetic narrative follows the famed lawman and his historic posse through the streets of Tombstone, in a natural five-act tragedy: the western zone, rise of the outlaws and hero, the showdown, fall of the outlaws and hero, the vendetta ride. In striking prose poetry that makes use of Earp's own words, Beckett has mined newspapers, from Tombstone's Epitaph to the San Francisco Examiner, Earp's written testimonies, and biographer interviews to get to the humanity behind the folklore. Wyatt Earp was a man of his word, committed to the law, who faced his father, armed mobs, assassins, and, as his companion Doc Holliday says: he walked right in. But he also believed in peace and did all he could to avoid violence. Antithesis makes myths of American men, and as his friend Bat Masterson says: the story of Wyatt Earp is the story of the West. |