Social Yet Distanced: Showdown At The Am I OK Corral or How To Be an All Around Cowboy

<p>Social Yet Distanced: Showdown At The Am I OK Corral or How To Be an All Around Cowboy</p> <p>Social yet Distanced and Ozark Poet Scot Young came together to discuss his new release "All Around Cowboy."<br> <br> Historically the cowboy mystique has centered around fatherhood, community and giving back to the common good. Just because. Scot Young talks with us from the role of a modern renaissance man, the post-modern cowboy , making the mystique real. &nbsp;He speaks from his experiences growing up, the different times, bar fights, pro wrestlers and a stellar career as educator, and mentor who bleeds it all out in poems.</p> <p>The Poets Approve:</p> <p>“Scot Young may not want to hear this, but he isn’t a cowboy, not in the movie poster sense anyway. This book, his first, is the history of the man he’s become, stronger than his heroes Richard Brautigan and Charles Bukowski, educating young people, publishing countless others without thought given to personal reward, often helping them when they’re not in a position to help themselves, opening his heart and sharing a great love of literature, Scot Young is a great poet, but anyone can do that, he’s an even greater man, so I take it back, maybe he is a cowboy, but let’s be clear, John Wayne would never have the balls to be Scot Young.”</p> <p>-John Dorsey, Author of <em>The Prettiest Girl at the Dance</em></p> <p><br></p> <p>“When archeology digs up a book of poetry from this changing planet, it will reveal a bit of “Herodotus Americana” as Scot Young’s good cowboy rides into the sunset of the greatest generation and plays the last number on the jukebox. Like the songs, the poems of tragedy and joys, from miniskirts to baseball, grows up and glows up in the middle of the country’s golden era of post war years from the 50’s to 70’s. This all around cowboy knew the greats, from “Butterfly” to “Buk” while metaphorically herding the storm clouds out of the sky. Tragic, rough &amp; rowdy, hip and cool, delicate for the heart and head, his poems, like Robinson, hits