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    612-822-4611

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Chasing Echoes

Chasing Echoes

Barger, Walt

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0595658717
ISBN13: 9780595658718
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: Jul 1 2003
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.36
Language: English
Chasing Echoes passionately brings the past to the present through nature. Walt Barger sees himself in the ocean that . . . continues to roll waves to an empty beach, in the dawn that . . . neatly fold[s] the blanket of stars. . . in the West... His words gracefully balance the self in nature . . . like the spindle of a fine time piece. Barger's poetry evokes the simplicity of a past both rural and Southern. Whether he is describing overalls or a weather worn piano, objects take on presence. The language is vivid with a sense of history that is personal and connected. Poems like Bib with Buttoned Fly vividly speak of his memories, at eight years old, of owning a new pair of overalls in crisp, sharp lines. The poem I Wish you Bluebirds is a poem with surprising freshness in the lines when ... thoughts are stumbling over stones of clay, I wish you bluebirds to sing, and pave the way. Walt Barger has a great sense of place. Walking through his poetry, you see family, friends, and neighbors. His use of description takes us home. Margaret Britton Vaughn Poet Laureate of Tennessee

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