In this book of poetry, Dave Oliphant examines the Lone Star State from border to border focusing on its history, its cities, its towns–and, especially–on its people.

Oliphant, walking through the events and places of his own life, walks as well through the continuing presence of the past…[F]ew of us are likely to notice a book-length poem in a meditative mode which examines one man’s history and plays it against, in complex and intricate fashion, the history of his city and state….