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Along Texas roadways rest thousands of contemplative shrines, usually marked by small, white metal crosses. Anchored by the stunning photography of roadside memorials by Dan Streck, this landmark book allows four poets to respond to the visual summons of roadside memorials with lyric intensity and eloquent ekphrasis: Larry D. Thomas, Jack B. Bedell, Sarah Cortez, and Loueva Smith. Graphic designer Nancy J. Parsons brings her award-winning skills to perfectly meld photography with poetry in this gorgeous volume.A Plain, White Cross It lists slightlybeside the highway.Whoever placed it theredrove its uprightdeep into the earth, intimate with the tragedyof wind and driving rain.Knowing the certaintyof erasure, they left itnameless, just a simplewooden cross harboring, for a while, the tracesof unbearable loss.As if lit from withinwith white light, it glowsbeside the silent highway: white light starkas the grief of the bereaved, white as the clouds above, streaking, disintegrating.Larry D. Thomas
