Product Description: Poetry. The book's poems detail rewards, challenges, and disappointments of life, especially in Missouri and the Midwest, as well as meditations on Midwestern nature and geography and on the ironies of the poet's place in contemporary culture...read more

Product Description: Poetry from 38 poets: Sue Brannan Walker - Alabama Peggy Shumaker - Alaska David Mason - Colorado Mary Crow - Colorado Dick Allen - Connecticut JoAnn Balingit - Delaware Fleda Brown - Delaware Kevin Stein - Illinois Norbert Krapf - Indiana Joyce Brinkman - Indiana Mary Swander - Iowa Marvin Bell - Iowa Robert Dana - Iowa Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg - Kansas Denise Low - Kansas Jonathan Holden - Kansas Betsy Sholl - Maine David Clewell - Missouri Walter Bargen - Missouri W...read more

Product Description: Poetry. DAYS LIKE THIS ARE NECESSARY includes new poems as well as highlights from the 13-book career of Walter Bargen, first poet laureate of Missouri. Kevin Prufer writes in his foreword to the book, "His work is technically sophisticated, rhythmically subtle, and emotionally complex, but--and here's the trick--it's also the kind of poetry that one might offer to someone who says he doesn't like poetry much, someone who says he doesn't `get' poetry, someone who prefers mysteries or history books or biographies...read more

Product Description: Book by Bargen, Walter

Product Description: Book by Bargen, Walter

Product Description: Poetry. Writer Debra Di Blasi calls The Feast, "a work of subversive genius, particularly relevant to today's political and cultural climate." Bargen calls this latest work a prose poem sequence, meaning a collection that has the energy, rhythm, and imagery of poetry, while also having the narrative thread and characters of a novella - even if the narrative is held together by a tenuous thread, such as a repeating image...read more

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