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From a Sandstone Ledge, like the rock's elements, offers a view at once firm yet shifting, as we travel the blue highways of memory seeking a way home. From the backyard to the borderlands, the living room rocker to the 32,000 acre Llano Estacado plateau, place reminds us that we are part of, not separate from, the natural world. In these often human-altered landscapes, populated by porcupines, ducks, tarantulas, and more, Armitage explores the complexity of kinship and story-making-and the sustainability of wonder.

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As a daughter of the Llano Estacado, Shelley Armitage knows the landscape as intimately as the face of a beloved ancestor. Far from ""featureless,"" as early explorers described the saffron sea of grass, the llano and its sandstone ledges serve as a perspective for the poet to explore what lies beneath the surface. These are poems that will stay with the reader, evocative of the uncluttered country where the human heart's tangled wilderness can find space, distance, and peace. -Kathryn Jones, author of An Orchid's Guide to Life Sit for a while with Shelley Armitage on this sandstone ledge and listen for the song of wind through strings drawn taught between place and past and poet. She speaks for many of us children of the llano. -Jerry L. Rogers, Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places, (Ret.), and author So Long For Now: A Sailor's Letters from the USS Franklin Shelley Armitage's poetry reminds me of Larry McMurtry had he been a poet. These poems transport me. Suddenly I am ten again and herding a wayward calf back toward the barn through a mott of mesquites. On the crosswind, I can smell my mom's King Ranch Casserole baking at the house. With these poems, Armitage has earned an even more prominent place in Texas Literature. -WF Strong, author of Stories from Texas: Some of Them Are True Poetry is an art of freedom because it liberates us from time and space and body just long enough, as Shelley Armitage writes in From a Sandstone Ledge, to ""look back . . . to see where we have been,"" even as we move forward. As these poems demonstrate- recording for ourselves and others the many flickering beauties of place and nature and family-we can, as we age, still return to, carry forward, and sing again. -Laurence Musgrove, author of A Stranger's Heart

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