The Survival Expo [Paperback]

In her third collection, Caki Wilkinson steers us into flyover countryfrom its gun shows and high school gyms to the gates of Gracelandas she explores the relationship between fear and self-protection, both the ways we weather the past and how we carry it with us. Through an array of voices and forms,In her inventive new poems, Caki Wikinsonmeditates, with humor and disarming tenderness, on family, loneliness,and the seemingly endless threats of our age. Assoon as I started reading this book, I started trying to memorize it --the way these poems negotiate sound and sense is both incrediblycomplex and seemingly effortless. The writing is wry and biting,glorious and mournful, indelibly musical and deeply, deeply smart.