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A work of abiding love and questing memory, this new volume provides the stirring pleasures of a family album while nimbly skirting sentimentality and reflexive nostalgia in favor of well-earned insight, jubilant celebration (mornings aglow like \"carnival glass\"), and able compassion. The highest compliment that I can pay Meischen is that his German-American family chronicle brings to mind James Agee's indelible and legendary \"Knoxville: Summer of 1915.\" Caliche Road Poems is a vibrant contribution to the literature of Texas.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Cyrus Cassells, Texas Poet Laureate, 2021, author of Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a boy in these poems, and there is an adult looking back at the boy, and the boy and the adult are one and the same: \"I forget he's there \/\/ the nine-year old inside me \/ clamoring to get out,\" David Meischen writes. There is a mother by a clothesline and a father striking matches to keep the cold at bay. There is butchering and there is drought, and there is hard work, and there is heartbreak. In these poems, yearning is shaped like the shadow of the South Texas agarita, shaped like a rooster, a gutted lamb. 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