Notes from the Journey Westward

Notes from the Journey Westward

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A novelist, essayist, and poet, I write about landscape, loss, class, family, memory, and the American West. I try to interrogate notions of masculinity and am always paying attention to rural spaces and the rural/urban divide.

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About Joe Wilkins

Joe Wilkins is the author of the novels The Entire Sky and Fall Back Down When I Die; a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers; and four collections of poetry, including When We Were Birds and Pastoral, 1994.