Notes from the Journey Westward (White Pine Press Poetry

Notes from the Journey Westward (White Pine Press Poetry Prize)

"Wilkins' poems are savage and beautiful, full of hard-won lives and a godawful tenderness. In this book Manifest Destiny is more than political rhetoricâ€”it's a call to find the limits of survival. It has dust-stunned men, hardscrabble women, and a patient devil, sharpening his teeth."â€”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 witnessedâ€”for these are human landscapes."â€”Michael McGriff
Joe Wilkins is the author of The Mountain and the Fathers and Killing the Murnion Dogs.

Notes from the Journey Westward (White Pine Press Poetry Prize)