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<p>Part memoir, part how-to, all Baxter Black, <i>Lessons from a Desperado Poet</i> is a humorous, witty take on making a living by doing the right thing and trying everything. According to Black—who provides 118 life lessons through the course of the book—success, at least in the form to be had by working outside the system, “does not take a genius; it just requires the persistence of a glacier.&nbsp;. . . Remember, often it is not ability, it’s reliability. The world is run by those who show up.”</p> <p>A&nbsp;mind-tickling romp through the formation, fermentation, and fruition of&nbsp;the author’s career as a poet in a country where publishing poetry is&nbsp;“practically illegal,”&nbsp;<i>Lessons from a Desperado Poet</i> is instructional for the entrepreneur, inspirational for the ambitious, and entertaining for the teeming masses. In three sections—“How I Learned,”“What I Learned,” and “Why I Was Able to Learn”—the man the New York Times called “probably the nation’s most successful living poet” takes us through everything from his “Basque Infusion” (i.e., the lessons he learned working for a hard-headed Basque) and how he became a self-sustaining poet, to such chapters as “Me

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Author

Black, Baxter, 1945-

Publisher

Guilford, CT: TwoDot

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780762769971

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.89 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14