A bipolar poet and his teenage son set off on a journey to locate the beating heart of America in the vast empty spaces of the Great Basin. A border crossing that pits our duo against federal officialdom; a freeway choked with cars that have a mind of their own; an image of freedom erased to make way for a shopping mall. But us the skies get wider, the dreams grow taller: angels drop feathers as they fly overhead, and a wizard blows a harmonica tune into the endless desert wind.
In a dozen poems and prose fragments, Japhy Ryder transports us to a magical land in the centre of our continent, where the most truthful words are those written on the sky