“Bonnie Thurston’s collection celebrates her mountain homeland in West Virginia - its rugged beauties and its history, evoking the blend of present and past, the land’s conformation, its story, its independent people – and its grip on the poet’s heart.” Ruth Bidgood
“A pleasure it was to read these poems filled with such spirit and abiding concern for places that nurture the soul. In this book of rooted poems, we are never far from knowing this call to both know ‘where we are’ and to be ‘present’ in that ‘where’ which, for Thurston, remains the mountains of Appalachia.” Marc Harshman