Killing the Murnion Dogs - Wilkins, Joe
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Poetry. KILLING THE MURNION DOGS, Joe Wilkins's first full-length collection, is a series of elegies. Herein we grieve years and fathers, highways and memories, rivers, shotgun shacks, and myths. These poems sing us down the two-lane highways and backroads of the vast American interior, from the hard-luck plains of eastern Montana to the cypress swamps of the Mississippi Delta, yet KILLING THE MURNION DOGS refuses the easy answers of nostalgia or cynicism. Rather, these poems insist that we "remember the good pain," that despite it all "this dust here is home." And so we search--always,…mehr

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Poetry. KILLING THE MURNION DOGS, Joe Wilkins's first full-length collection, is a series of elegies. Herein we grieve years and fathers, highways and memories, rivers, shotgun shacks, and myths. These poems sing us down the two-lane highways and backroads of the vast American interior, from the hard-luck plains of eastern Montana to the cypress swamps of the Mississippi Delta, yet KILLING THE MURNION DOGS refuses the easy answers of nostalgia or cynicism. Rather, these poems insist that we "remember the good pain," that despite it all "this dust here is home." And so we search--always, insistently--for a place to abide inside the loss. "It is time to grieve," Wilkins tells us, "to believe in the world again. "The most striking component of it is its awareness of 'the whole world.' What is ordinary becomes transcendent. In places derelict and seemingly unexceptional, Wilkins compels us to recognize what is worth salvage, worth praise."--Deborah Kim, Indiana Review
Autorenporträt
Joe Wilkins is the author of the novels The Entire Sky and Fall Back Down When I Die, both of which garnered wide critical acclaim. His memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, won the GLCA New Writers Award, and his four previous collections of poetry include Thieve and When We Were Birds, winner of the Oregon Book Award. Born and raised on a sheep and hay ranch in eastern Montana, Wilkins lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon, where he directs the creative writing program at Linfield University.