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Notes from the Journey Westward
Joe Wilkins
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Description for Notes from the Journey Westward
Paperback. A book that interrogates the idea of America--especially our westering, both historical and contemporary. Series: White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 199.
"Wilkins' poems are savage and beautiful, full of hard-won lives and a godawful tenderness. In this book Manifest Destiny is more than political rhetoric--it's a call to find the limits of survival. It has dust-stunned men, hardscrabble women, and a patient devil, sharpening his teeth."--Traci Brimhall "For Wilkins, the American West is no theme park or romantic diorama. He offers an earnest glimpse into past and present landscapes that are real and imagined, mourned and celebrated and witnessed--for these are human landscapes."--Michael McGriff Joe Wilkins is the author of The Mountain and the Fathers and Killing the ... Read more
"Wilkins' poems are savage and beautiful, full of hard-won lives and a godawful tenderness. In this book Manifest Destiny is more than political rhetoric--it's a call to find the limits of survival. It has dust-stunned men, hardscrabble women, and a patient devil, sharpening his teeth."--Traci Brimhall "For Wilkins, the American West is no theme park or romantic diorama. He offers an earnest glimpse into past and present landscapes that are real and imagined, mourned and celebrated and witnessed--for these are human landscapes."--Michael McGriff Joe Wilkins is the author of The Mountain and the Fathers and Killing the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
White Pine Press United States
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
Series
White Pine Press Poetry Prize
Number of Pages
108
Place of Publication
Buffalo, United States
ISBN
9781935210368
SKU
V9781935210368
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About Joe Wilkins
Joe Wilkins is the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers (Counterpoint 2012), and a previous collection of poems, Killing the Murnion Dogs (Black Lawrence Press 2011). His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, Harvard Review, Ecotone, the Sun, Orion, and Slate, among other magazines and literary journals. He lives with ... Read more
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