The poems in Dancing with a Cowboy are charged with memories and hope,
of family, old loves, nostalgia, and regret. Searching for shades of
meaning that lurk around old, familiar corners, the poems are
constructed from clues found there. Memories are reframed from a new
point of reference, defining the curious, the sad, or the just plain
ordinary. Tracking the hazardous and the happier moments of life, Rath
writes the world alive, always catching its breath, carried forth by
emotion."