The Digs in Escondido Canyon [signed]

"The poems ... are set in the hardscrabble of West Texas and derive a great deal of their power from the land itself. The rest of their deep power comes from McDonald: his clear, but never cold, eye; his sure sense of phrase and rhythm; his love of a land that requires much from those who would love it. Nobody has ever written better poetry about Texas than Walt McDonald." — Andrew Hudgins The Digs in Escondido Canyon is Walt McDonald's twelfth book of poems. He has published sixteen other collections of poetry and fiction, including Blessings the Body Gave (Ohio State University Press, 1998), Counting Survivors (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), Night Landings (Harper & Row, 1989), After the Noise of Saigon (University of Massachusetts Press, 1988), and The Flying Dutchman (Ohio State University Press, 1987). Two other books won Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame: All That Matters: The Texas Plains in Photographs and Poems (Texas Tech Universi