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Joe Wilkins
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Fall Back Down When I Die
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2019
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The Entire Sky
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2024
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The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on The Big Dry
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2012
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Killing the Murnion Dogs
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2011
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When We Were Birds: Poems
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2016
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Notes from the Journey Westward (White Pine Press Poetry Prize, 17)
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2012
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Far Enough: A Western in Fragments
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2015
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Pastoral, 1994
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2025
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Ragged Point Road
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2006
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Thieve
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2019
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My tenth birthday was the first I celebrated after my father died.
I’ve been shuffling through old pictures and think I’ve found one from that day. My grandfather sits beside me at the formica kitchen table, his big, working-man’s hands folded in front of him. Behind his glasses, his eyes are kind; his bald head shines. He’s trying to look happy, though he was never one for ceremony, never one for
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“They worked together at the Starbucks on Grand, and—let’s see, what else could she tell him?—they were both about the biggest Avett Brothers fans in probably the whole state of Montana.”
― Fall Back Down When I Die
― Fall Back Down When I Die
“Ranching was life distilled: birth and death, the hard winter giving way to spring, and spring to the heat and fast black storms of summer. There was a violence in it, a violence you tried in all ways to diminish but a violence you nonetheless had to know and hold. In this tilting world, when so many had gotten away from anything resembling the actual, were living what Rene thought of as supermarket lives, ranching at least kept you close to what mattered, to what was real.”
― The Entire Sky
― The Entire Sky
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