The Wynona Stone Poems
Caki Wilkinson

Winner of the 2013 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award

Meet Wynona Stone. She's on track to lose her job, she doesn't love the weatherman she's sleeping with, and everything she tries (cosmetology, astrology) falls short. So she stays home making models, watching soaps, and staring down “doubt, a storm that's never not approaching.”

“In focusing on her title character, a singular creation, Wilkinson says something about what it means to be female—living, loving, aging—in turns of phrase that are odd and perfect and stick to you like gum.”
—Lena Dunham

“One of the most innovative collections I have read in years. . . .wildly imaginative, superlatively tailored, and. . .genuinely enjoyable.”
—D. Gilson, The Rumpus

“The poems in this mind-bending book are painfully hilarious and quietly inspiring—my inner ear is ringing still. The sheer invention of these characters and their off-kilter world is stunning. The skill of the poet is evident in every jangly line, every pitch-perfect word. What a thrill it is to have this book in the world!”
—Maurice Manning

“Thank the ‘snow angel without wings’ that Caki Wilkinson has turned her fierce formal powers to this tale of thwarted potential.... Wilkinson makes art of a major kind, turning the trauma of
aging into poetic gold.”
—Julie Sheehan

Caki Wilkinson received her MFA from the Johns Hopkins University and her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Her first collection, Circles Where the Head Should Be, won the Vassar Miller Prize, selected by J. D. McClatchy. She is Assistant Professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis.

Paperback / $15.95 (Can $17.95) / ISBN 978-0-89255-446-1 / 82 pages / Poetry

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