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FROM THE 2023 MONTANA POET LAUREATE...

Winner of the 2018 Montana Book Award

and the 2019 High Plains Book Award


"La Tray is a perimeter man, seeing the reality in wildness yet dealing the best he can at rec onciling truth in nature." - Barry Babcock author of Teachers in…

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1 author picked One-Sentence Journal as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sometimes the compelling central character of a book is the author. So it is with this one, by the current poet laureate of Montana. Page after page, I was mesmerized by what La Tray could weave out of a single, seemingly simple thought that, it turned out, contained galaxies of complexity and nuance.

I think La Tray is a true original in Western letters, a man of deep conviction, conscience, humor, righteousness, and love. His talents are on full display here.

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