Book description
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…
Why read it?
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.
From Craig's list on The best books featuring characters navigating the contemporary American West.
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