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Wildest: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781636143217
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Dec 1 2026
Pages: 96
Language: English
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES, Kira Tucker's Wildest rethinks the American Dream as a series of ecological nightmares and the untold stories buried within. These unflinching lyrics bear witness to the raging wildfires, literal and figurative, of social injustice--from the haunting origins of Lake Lanier to the human rights crisis converging at this nation's borders and beyond.
Rooted in the Delta South, Wildest is a sojourn through geographies of loss and hope--from the diasporic flora of the Puerto Rican rainforest, to the microplastics clouding Mt. Fuji, to the iridescent beauty of Gulf Coast oil spills, and more. Investigating turn-of-the-century dream science alongside apocalyptic climate data, this collection insists on a reclamation of wildness. Each poem reaches--through personal memory, archives of public life, and seeds of possibility--toward a richer understanding of our collective unconscious.
Above all, this striking debut asks: how might we dream, grieve, and make meaning at this global tipping point?
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