Daniel Boone’s Window by Matthew Wimberly

This is the second poetry collection of this young author, and it is not a common feat for a second book to be snagged by LSU Press, arguably the most prestigious in this genre in the South. Wimberley’s first book focused on his relationship with his late father, and this book stays conscious of death but expands his vision into the region where he was born and now teaches at Lees McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina. “Matthew Wimberley possesses an uncanny ear: he listens to ghosts, nuthatches, blood, ridges, sorrow, beeches, and to the ‘run-on sentence of a creek.’ This listening is an intimacy with inheritance and Appalachia. This listening is rich with astonishing connections and leaps: the ‘clang of snow-chains’ turns into the music of a carousel and light is retooled into a ‘scalpel of an undertaker.’ Compassionate and achingly precise, Wimberley’s second book is remarkable - his immense gifts as a poet shine on every page.” --Eduardo C. Corral. “Shadows,  tinfoil, turpent