Cloud of Expectation

Cloud of Expectation:
American classic in the making

Summer, baseball, and Ricky Nelson . . . the fi rst stirrings of rock n roll on the radio . . . bicycles, soda pop, and puberty on the way . . . kids suspended between the Farm World, the Town World, and the Great World.

Therell be no more books like this because times, as they say, have changed. Take it as a gift from way-back-then to now; or a critic might call it the Last
Train from Mayberry.

An accomplished, lyrical vision of a locality over several generations.
--- Kirkus Reviews

I so enjoyed your fi rst book --- I couldnt put it down!
--- Gertrude Barnstone

Rich 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. Thomas
2008 Texas Poet Laureate