{"product_id":"9781636284613","title":"Walking Wheel","description":"Author: Molly Fisk\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781636284613\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Red Hen Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Jul 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalking 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFisk 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptivating 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47922335580318,"sku":"ING-9781636284613","price":48.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781636284613.jpg?v=1782888984","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781636284613","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}