“These poems transport me. . . .With them Armitage has earned an even more prominent place in Texas literature.” –WF Strong, Stories from Texas: Some of Them Are True
“Armitage knows the landscape as intimately as the face of a beloved ancestor. .. .These poems will stay with the reader, evocative of the uncluttered country where the human heart’s tangled wilderness can find space, distance, peace.”–Kathryn Jones, author of An Orchid’s Guide to Life
Shelley’s Blog
13 Sep Yoga for Standing Rock
It reminds me of the circumstances years ago surrounding the proposal to sink the nation's first high level nuclear waste "dump"( facility) in Deaf Smith County near my home. There were meetings where inscrutably long documents in what seemed almost like another language circulated. Some of us sat in our seats cradling them hoping the oral presentations would make more sense. But there was a feeling talk was so much mumbo-jumbo. After all, when the DOE left and the waste site with them (a rider on a Reagan...
