Meadow Slasher
The follow-up to Swamp Isthmus, and the fourth book in the No Volta pentalogy, Meadow Slasher is a powerful and engaging split from Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s earlier work. All of the books in the pentalogy are connected through shared ideas, stories, characters, and settings, but they are also independent and unique in their voice and approach. Meadow Slasher is a meditation on violence and self, and it maps out the intensity of a break down, navigating a shadowy terrain of loss, dread, fear, and exuberance. Drawn from a place of questioning, the end result are poems that are eerie dialogic and unlike anything you’ve encountered from Wilkinson before.
Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of eight books, including Swamp Isthmus, also published by Black Ocean. He has also edited several anthologies and directed a movie about Califone with Solan Jensen called Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape. Currently, Wilkinson edits a journal called The Volta and runs a small press with Lisa Wells called Letter Machine Editions. Born and raised in Seattle, Wilkinson now makes his home in Tucson, where he teaches at the University of Arizona.
