It's been 20 years since the publication of Gale Renee Walden's first book of poetry, Same Blue Chevy . Walden's second book of poems, Where the Time Goes , is richly autobiographical as her poetry travels from desert to prairie, childhood to aging and back. Her poems paint a middle America that is familiar and mundane but raised to a mythic plane steeped in the poetic cadences of nostalgia and a life saturated in literature, travel, and family.