A lyrical eco-memoir set in the Texas Panhandle and a meditation on kinship, place, and writing.

Rights Contact

Sandy See, University of Oklahoma Press <ssee@ou.edu>

Award(s)

American Book Awards, New York Critics Circle Award, and nominee

Book Website

http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/2078/walking%20the%20llano

Contributor(s)

Shelley Armitage

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13

978-0-8061-5162-5

Publication Date

Jan 26, 2016

Pages

200

Tags

#autobiographyandmemoir

#nature

Our Review (5 out of 5 stars)

Advanced poetics are at play in this work that is both a tribute to the land and a moving exploration of family ties. The Texas plateau known as the Staked Plain occupies thousands of square miles, and may have a memory just as vast, as Shelley Armitage displays in her awe-inducing memoir,... Read More