All the Great Territories by Matthew Wimberley

All the Great Territories  are the territories that Matthew Wimberley traveled, living out of his car in 2012 with the ashes of his estranged, now dead, father in search of the most appropriate place or places to spread  them. This odyssey takes him from the Blue Ridge Mountain where he was raised to Idaho.  These poems muse about love and loss and memory and grief and kinship and the natural world. “Matthew Wimberley’s deeply intimate and lyrical collection All the Great Territories maps a son’s journey through the landscapes of loss—through empty towns and black mountains and snow-covered fields. Forged by tender observations, these poems seek to uncover personal histories half-buried under layers of dirt and ash. They burn bright with elegy and longing for a father, a home, a memory of a life left behind.”—Vandana Khanna. “The poems in this rich and incisive book are close-held and generous, in both detail and formal expression. Although the poet who has written these fine poems is