{"product_id":"walking-wheel-by-molly-fisk-9781636284613","title":"Walking Wheel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Molly Fisk reminds us what poetry can do, put to the service of Story.\"-Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses and The Jump-Off Creek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalking Wheel is a tender, lyrical portrait of pioneer love and labor that revives the quiet heroism of everyday life in 1875, where intimacy, resilience, and devotion shape the story of home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this rich new collection, Molly Fisk braids together the ordinary tasks of love and work in 1875, a century we've almost forgotten but whose human concerns are universal and timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFisk describes the journey of newlyweds Phoebe and Miles Imlay from their birthplace in central Oregon to California's Surprise Valley. These are quiet, lyrical poems building a private world of intimacy and effort in alternating voices. From sawing timber, turning the heel of a sock, and measuring a pie's baking with verses of a song, through sex, pregnancy, and childbirth, the couple's first year of marriage working side by side is offered to us in resonant, unexpected detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptivating and accessible, by turns tender, funny, erotic, and surprising, Walking Wheel chronicles a self-sufficient era that some only half-remember and many find hard to believe. With these linked poems, Fisk brings a measure of balm and solace to our often fraught, overwhelming times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934416191724,"sku":"9781636284613","price":74.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781636284613-walking-wheel.jpg?v=1783917787","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/walking-wheel-by-molly-fisk-9781636284613","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}