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Wonder Wheel: Poems

Wonder Wheel: Poems

Prunty, Wyatt
Couch, Leigh Anne
Whitton, Chelsea

Paperback

Series: Sewanee Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.95

ISBN10: 0807185876
ISBN13: 9780807185872
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Mar 16 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Chelsea Whitton's debut poetry collection, Wonder Wheel, dexterously whirls in sonic circles, ruminating on themes of spiritual bestowal and terrestrial bequest, millennial identity, adult friendship, feminine desire, and the mythmaking at stake in family history. Disoriented speakers who nevertheless believe they know where they are going, and what they are doing, provide an occasion for lyric expansiveness and periodic bathos, including elegies for June Carter Cash, Patsy Cline, the author's father, an ex-cat, and others. At the heart of the collection is a rhyming sonnet crown that offers a wicked inversion of the book's larger vision by constructing an apocalyptic mythology of matrilineal inheritance reliant on resistance, destruction, and martyrdom as much as on cycles of creation and healing.

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