Following the Wagons: A Poetic Trail – PREPUB OFFER

In this historically based multi-voiced long poem Kimberly K. Williams brings to life the experiences of women who crossed the western United States during 1840-1860. Combining the empathic imagination of poetry with archival research, the collection shows us their extreme vulnerability as it critically observes a quintessential colonial journeying.

In a suite of poems that has the pace and grip of a novel, Williams gives wholly believable voice to the American women who ‘went west’ with the wagon trails of the 19th century. Making bold use of the canvas of the page, she evokes the beauty, monotony and peril of the trail.   Penelope Layland

By tuning in to voices of women on the 19th Century American wagon trail, Kimberly Williams creates a choral work brimming with life. Harshness, monotony and grief are peppered with flashes of beauty and joy. This superb poetry awakens something universal about how we make sense of the lives we are given.  Emilie Collyer

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