Thieve

by Joe Wilkins

Thieve is a pointed, political book, though the politics here are local, particular, physically felt. The central sequence of poems--ubtitled "Poem against the Crumbling of the Republic"--as written in direct response to the poet's own transition from rural poverty to coastal liberal comfort, as well as the presidential election of 2016, which brought to the national consciousness grave division in American society between urban and rural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899241662
• ISBN13: 9780899241661
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Lynx House Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.4"