The Survival Expo
Caki Wilkinson

In her third collection, Caki Wilkinson steers us into flyover country—from its gun shows and high school gyms to the gates of Graceland—as she explores the relationship between fear and self-protection, both the ways we weather the past and how we carry it with us. Through an array of voices and forms, The Survival Expo finds music in the mundane—and hope, too, in the worlds we make to survive the world that made us.

“If Gwendolyn Brooks and Wallace Stevens had a great-granddaughter who lived in the contemporary South, she might be Caki Wilkinson.”
—Terrance Hayes

“I am altogether grateful for this book, this poet.”
—Marcus Wicker

Caki Wilkinson is the author of the poetry collections Circles Where the Head Should Be and The Wynona Stone Poems. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee, and is an Associate Professor of English at Rhodes College.

Paperback / $15.95 (Can $21.95) / ISBN 978-0-89255-533-8 / 72 pages / Poetry