![]() “The beauty of the book’s form is that it so perfectly marries the content-fragments of writing about fragments of history. To do what they had to do, they would stop, get everything assembled, pose the pictures, take them, then dismantle everything and move on.” -Pamela Wylie, RALPH Magazine ![]() “We find ourselves getting involved with Rekdal’s family, who may at first blush to have little or nothing to do with these characters from over a century ago as they traveled through the plains states and much of the upper northwest … at times in grave danger, with equipment which weighed heavily on them: the fragile plates, the chemicals, the solvents. Her broad scope is well supported by the publisher’s inventive treatment of the text assigning a unique type style to each storyline, coupled with a unique starting page announcing each strand or voice in this tapestry.” - Mary Curtis, Calyx “Rekdal, ever the gifted braider of storylines, carries off the combination of memoir and biography about Curtis and Upshaw, showcasing Curtis’s work with her own ruminations in poetry about the photos.
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