Marco Wilkinson
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"My life, these weeds." Marco Wilkinson uses his deep knowledge of undervalued plants, mainly weeds -- invisible yet ubiquitous, unwanted yet abundant, out-of-place yet flourishing -- as both structure and metaphor in these intimate vignettes. Madder combines poetic meditations on nature, immigration, queer sensuality, and willful forgetting with recollections of Wilkinson's Rhode Island childhood and glimpses of his maternal family's life in Uruguay....