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...."