Wonder Wheel: Poems by Whitton, Chelsea

Wonder Wheel: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807185872)

Vendor: Chelsea Whitton
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Format: Paperback
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Wonder Wheel: Poems by Whitton, Chelsea

Wonder Wheel: Poems

$20.95
Wonder Wheel: Poems by Whitton, Chelsea

Wonder Wheel: Poems

$20.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Chelsea Whitton
ISBN-10: 0807185876
ISBN-13: 9780807185872
Publisher: LSU Press
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2026
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
By Chelsea Whitton
By Chelsea Whitton
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Chelsea Whitton is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in many print and online publications including Beloit Poetry Journal, Cream City Review, Copper Nickel, Cimarron Review, and Poetry Ireland, among others. She lives in southwestern Ohio and teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

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