Winner of the 1993 National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award for Poetry"Ever since discovering Walter McDonald's work, I've been moved by its evocation of the spirit of his native West Texas plains ....... This man knows not only who but where he is, and in a quietly masculine way, with clean, strong, unsentimental words and images, he celebrates that whereness. . . . It is a book worth having, and reading, and rereading time and again...