"It took me seventy years to write Niagara Digressions," says E. R. Baxter III, a lifelong resident of Niagara County. Niagara Digressions is an "indirect memoir" via cut-up method, a rich fabric of familiar and unappreciated histories mingled with the personal, from ancient cave paintings to 1960s mimeographed poetry, the massacre of the buffalo to the manufacture of shredded wheat cereal, and all-points in-between. As well, it is a naturalist's meditation on land as the canvas upon which all the stories are painted.
If readers can be sensitive enough to absorb its complexities, they can also absorb its riches, and discover, as this book suggests, that they "can spread-eagle themselves on the ground and feel the earth's slow revolving and, simultaneously, here in Western New York, its rebounding, too, from its compression of thousands of years under ice." - Eric Gansworth, author of Extra Indians, from the Introduction
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