Cloud of Expectation (Book One): The In America Series

Summer baseball and Ricky Nelson . . . the first stirrings of rock n roll on theradio . . . bicycles soda pop and puberty on the way . . . kids suspended between the Farm World the Town World and the Great World. Echoes from a hard past vie with visions of the future as kids thrive and dream in the cupped hands of a protective America. Moon River . . . crossing you in style . . . someday ---Therell be no more books like this because times as they say have changed. The book is a gift from way-back-then to now --- open it and board the Last Train from Mayberry.An accomplished lyrical vision of a locality over several generations. --- Kirkus ReviewsI so enjoyed your first book --- I couldnt put it down!--- Gertrude BarnstoneRich with personal and historical detail and sparkling with clear and concise diction the book succeeds in revealing the bygone small-town life not only of Arkansas but also . . . of an earlier and simpler America as well.--- Larry D. Thomas2008 Texas Poet Laureate