Kirk Robertson, according to critic William Kittredge, is "one of those writers we listen to with gratitude." He is also one of Nevada s best-known poets, and rightly so, because his lean verses powerfully express the realities of life in the modern West its irony, disconnection, sadness, and relentless quest for meaning and a sense of place.

Robertson s view is as vast as the landscape itself, and his voice echoes the place laconic, authentic, rich in irony and the quiet strength of solitary men, full of the harshness and austere power of the High Desert.

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