If I Was a Highway Hagar Kotef I can think of no

I can think of no one else of his generation who reports the contemporary war between the sexes with more devastating wit and accuracy

In essays informed by postcolonial and decolonial perspectives

One feels that each moment he preserves in words dould have been expressed no other way

including education for and constraints on critical thinking

including phonological and phonetic variation

If I Was a Highway Hagar Kotef I can think of noIn this collection, its title borrowed from a Butch Hancock song, the essays switch lanes withHancock's evocative black and white photographs. Slowing down to take notice of a makeshiftshrine in the Texas Panhandle or zipping along the New York Thruway before dawn, Venturacaptures the details that make us think profoundly about work, music, poverty, beauty, ourhome on the planet and in the universe. About volcanoes and the Very Large Array.