"Ronk is a great American visionary. The Place One Is gives us further evidence of her singular, exquisite ability to see what's there, what's on the edges, what's porous, ever-shifting in the in-between. Wallace Stegner once famously said, ‘California is America, only more so . . . the national culture at its most energetic end.’ Ronk's California is the US, the planet, the universe as it tumbles before us, beyond us, within us into dust."
 

Gillian Conoley, author of A Little More Red Sun on the Human

“What does human become when being gives itself over to its inherent permeability, not only between subject and object but between body and environment, the rural and the urban, the physical and the textual? The Place One Is moves through questions such as these, coming into being simultaneous with walking along a shore—“in the seaweed strewn across the tide line” —or reading a detective novel— “as pages turn slowly as causality.” To slip into a thought is to slip into a body into a landscape into a book and therefore become the thought, body, landscape, book. In our divisive time, there may be no more crucial subject of meditation than this.”

Karla Kelsey, author of A Conjoined Book