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Walking Wheel: Novel-In-Verse
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $36.95
ISBN13: 9781636284613
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Molly Fisk reminds us what poetry can do, put to the service of Story.--Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses and The Jump-Off Creek
Walking Wheel is a tender, lyrical portrait of pioneer love and labor that revives the quiet heroism of everyday life in 1875, where intimacy, resilience, and devotion shape the story of home.
In this rich new collection, Molly Fisk braids together the ordinary tasks of love and work in 1875, a century we've almost forgotten but whose human concerns are universal and timeless.
Fisk describes the journey of newlyweds Phoebe and Miles Imlay from their birthplace in central Oregon to California's Surprise Valley. These are quiet, lyrical poems building a private world of intimacy and effort in alternating voices. From sawing timber, turning the heel of a sock, and measuring a pie's baking with verses of a song, through sex, pregnancy, and childbirth, the couple's first year of marriage working side by side is offered to us in resonant, unexpected detail.
Captivating and accessible, by turns tender, funny, erotic, and surprising, Walking Wheel chronicles a self-sufficient era that some only half-remember and many find hard to believe. With these linked poems, Fisk brings a measure of balm and solace to our often fraught, overwhelming times.
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