Joe Wilkins Knihy

Thieve is a pointed, political book, though the politics here are local, particular, physically felt. The central sequence of poems--subtitled "Poem against the Crumbling of the Republic"--was written in direct response to the poet's own transition from rural poverty to coastal liberal comfort, as well as the presidential election of 2016, which brought to the national consciousness grave division in American society between urban and rural people. Thieve is a poetic attempt, as someone who knows/has known both worlds, to speak across that chasm. Thieve also interrogates chasms and barriers between the human and the natural, the present and the past, the parent and the child, between what we earn and what by grace is given.

Set against the backdrop of the harsh Big Dry in eastern Montana, the narrative delves into the lives of boys and men shaped by loss, violence, and rural poverty. Joe Wilkins reflects on his upbringing after his father's death, intertwining his story with those of others in the community. The memoir challenges traditional notions of manhood and myth in the American West, emphasizing the power of storytelling as a means of resilience and hope. It resonates with the literary style of Norman Maclean and Jim Harrison, promising to be a significant contribution to contemporary literature.

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 die Lehrerin Gillian und deren Tochter Maddy kümmern sich um Rowdy. Wendell ahnt nicht, dass sie die Familie des Mordopfers sind. In der Jagdsaison spitzen sich die Ereignisse zu. Wendell und Rowdy werden in die gewalttätigen Auseinandersetzungen um Land und die unpopulären Naturschutzgesetze verwickelt. Die unüberwindbaren Widersprüche zwischen staatlichen Vorschriften und den traditionellen Besitzansprüchen der Einheimischen führen zu tödlichen Missverständnissen und Selbstjustiz. Die verdrängten dunklen Geheimnisse zwischen den Familien kommen ans Licht. Joe Wilkins' Roman steht in der Tradition großer Wildwestepen. In der überwältigenden Weite der einsamen Landschaft findet ein verzweifelter Existenzkampf unter verfeindeten Familien statt, deren Gewalttaten kaum geahndet werden.

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