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In 2012 Matthew Wimberley took a two-month journey, traveling and
living out of his car, during which time he had planned to spread
his father's ashes. By trip's end, the ashes remained, but
Wimberley had begun a conversation with his deceased father that is
continued here in his debut collection. All the Great Territories
is a book of elegies for a father as well as a confrontation with
the hostile, yet beautiful landscape of southern Appalachia. In the
wake of an estranged father's death, the speaker confronts that
loss while celebrating the geography of childhood and the
connections formed between the living and the dead. The narrative
poems in this collection tell one story through many: a once failed
relationship, the conversations we have with those we love after
they are gone. In an attempt to make sense of the father-son
relationship, Wimberley embraces and explores the pain of personal
loss and the beauty of the natural world. Stitching together
sundered realms-from Idaho to the Blue Ridge Mountains and from the
ghost of memory to the iron present of self-Wimberley produces a
map for reckoning with grief and the world's darker forces. At once
a labor of love and a searing indictment of those who
sensationalize and dehumanize the people and geography of
Appalachia, All the Great Territories sparks the reader forward,
creating a homeland all its own. "Because it's my memory I can give
it to you," Wimberley's speaker declares, and it's a promise well
kept in this tender and remarkable debut.
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