Publisher's Synopsis
Steinbeck, the ultimate writer on travel across america's vastness, gets nearest to answering the question that many ask those of us afflicted with wanderlust - Why? We journey to fulfil a longing that our imagination alone cannot satisfy. it is essential to have seen the shimmering heat rising from the endless blacktop, to have smelt the sage as evening draws shadows across distant peaks, to have heard the ticking motor as it cools. This is the stuff of John powls' poems, glimpses from the corner of the poet's eye woven into an odyssey as ancient as Homer's, yet as immediate as Carol Ballenger's photographs grabbed from Google's eye. Together these contain the essence of Route 66, a journey fulfilled not through reaching its end but through memories of what was, what might have been.
