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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...

With echoes of Demon Copperhead and Plainsong, a poignant story about a troubled boy on the run, an aging rancher, and a woman at a crossroads, who find unexpected solace and kinship in the family they make.With his long hair and penchant for guitar, teenage Justin is the spitting image of his idol, Kurt Cobain-a resemblance that has often marked him an outcast. When the long-simmering abuse from his uncle finally boils over, Justin has no cho...

Bull Mountains, Montana. Zwei Familien sind unheilvoll miteinander verbunden. Der vierundzwanzigjährige Wendell Newman hat vor kurzem seine Mutter verloren, sein Vater Verl ist seit Jahren verschwunden, nachdem er in ohnmächtiger Wut auf den verhassten Staat einen Wildhüter erschossen hatte. Eines Tages taucht unerwartet der siebenjährige Rowdy bei ihm auf. Als einziger Verwandter soll Wendell den traumatisierten Jungen in Obhut nehmen. Auch d...

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Wendell Newman, a young ranch hand in Montana, has recently lost his mother, leaving him an orphan. His bank account holds less than a hundred dollars and he owes back taxes on what remains of the land his parents owned, as well as money for the surgeries that failed to save his mother's life.An unexpected deliverance arrives in the form of seven-year-old Rowdy Burns, the mute and traumatised son of Wendell's incarcerated cousin. When Rowdy is...

Take a trip through some of the most remote, untouched and thrilling wilderness in the United States The Gates of the Arctic National park. In this book of stunning photographs and interesting histories and facts, Joe Wilkins shares the knowledge that he has accumulated through personal experience and adventures about this piece of this country's last frontier.

The Mountain and The Fathers explores the life of boys and men in the unforgiving, harsh world north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana in a drought afflicted area called the Big Dry, a land that chews up old and young alike. Joe Wilkins was born into this world, raised by a young mother and elderly grandfather following the untimely death of his father. That early loss stretches out across the Big Dry, and Wilkins uses his own story and...

The Mountain and the Fathers explores the life of boys and men in the unforgiving, harsh world north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana in a drought afflicted area called the Big Dry, a land that chews up old and young alike. Joe Wilkins was born into this world, raised by a young mother and elderly grandfather following the untimely death of his father. That early loss stretches out across the Big Dry, and Wilkins uses his own story and...

A book that interrogates the idea of America-especially our westering, both historical and contemporary.

In When We Were Birds, Joe Wilkins wrests his attention away from the griefs, deprivations, and high prairies of his Montana childhood and turns toward "the bean-rusted fields and gutted factories of the Midwest”, toward ordinary injustice and everyday sadness, toward the imminent birth of his son and his own confusions in taking up the mantle of fatherhood.

Though Joe Wilkins's new collection of short fiction set under the big Montana sky may have all the trappings of a traditional Western-long shots of sage flats and blue mountains, late nights at the dingy local watering hole, and a hard-working cowboy making time with the boss's daughter-FAR ENOUGH is far from traditional. A series of short prose fragments told from several viewpoints, FAR ENOUGH follows Willie Benson, Wade Newman, and young J...