In this new volume of poetry, the award-winning Texas poet who wrote Rafting the Brazos joins other poets of the plains who "tell a prairie all they hope it means, / inventing corrals and barns."
Walter McDonald is Paul W. Horn Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. His awards include three Western Heritage Awards, one for Rafting the Brazos; twice winner of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship Grant; Juniper Prize; George Elliston Poetry Prize; three-time winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize; 1992 Texas Professor of the Year awarded by CASE in Washington, D.C.