Songbox

by Kirk Wilson

Kirk Wilson's SONGBOX, winner of the 2020 Trio Award, is the testament of a mature poet confronting the dissolution of American assumptions, the precarious nature of identity, and the alchemical strangeness of experience. In the words of the Swedish poet Malina Mörling, the "profound and affecting poems" in SONGBOX "speak to us in an effortless and immediate syntax." In charged language, the poems dance with time and commune with love, memory, family, and loss. They bear acute witness to the pandemic, the long overdue reckoning with racial injustice, the threat of nascent fascism, the climate crisis. As the beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye has written, "these are poems to return to again and again."

102 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2021

About the author

Kirk Wilson’s books include the story collection OUT OF SEASON, the poetry collection SONGBOX, the poetry chapbook THE EARLY WORD, and UNSOLVED, a nonfiction crime study published in six editions in the US and UK

Kirk’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are widely published in literary journals and anthologies.

His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Elixir Press Fiction Award, the Trio House Press Trio Award, Editor’s Awards and other prizes in all three genres, and two Pushcart nominations.

Kirk’s website is www.KirkWilsonBooks.com.