Tent Shaker arrived today. First of all it is well designed and attractive and meets every priority that I could imagine you want in a book for the ages. And I do believe that Tent Shaker Vortex Voice is "yours." It has all the hallmarks of being a magnum opus, particularly in respect to the "voice" as rendered in the work. It is a unique voice in the sense that it could only belong to Charley D. Plymell; and in fact, it does belong to him and to no one else. There may be those who want to gloss over the rhetoric as being strange and difficult for them ..... I'm sure there will be. But there will be more who instantly recognize that there is more to be found here than there is to be found in the "golden tablets." Much more. It sings with pain and awareness while it strums a clear melody of love for that which is evanescent as well as that which is non-perishable. Few could read Tent Shaker Vortex Voice without experiencing the dynamism of the experience of a segment of America that has never had a real voice. Now the Plains will be examined with more attention and mined for better gold than ever before. Thanks for this testament.