{"title":"John Wall Barger","description":"John Wall Barger is the author of six previous collections of poems and one collection of essays. He lives in Vermont and lectures in the Writing Program at Dartmouth College.","products":[{"product_id":"resurrection-pie-paperback","title":"Resurrection Pie - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA resurrection pie is defined as any dish made from yesterday's leftovers--a meal that, in essence, rises from the dead. In this spirit, John Wall Barger's new collection of poetry calls forth the past and its dead, describing a bardo-like psychic terrain in a language of fable and trauma. The poems move fast and strange: a man arrives at his ex-lover's island of secrets; a mourner coughs up red flower petals; a man walks backward across Philadelphia as bodies rise out of the ground; a boy watches his dead sister's flea circus through a magnifying glass. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn language by turns vivid and destabilizing, Barger writes the odd, the marvelous, and the wounded with unguarded clarity. \u003ci\u003eResurrection Pie\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of serious play: absurd, intimate, melancholic. Dispatches from inside the fever dream.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378730139871,"sku":"9780807186060","price":22.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/XOKPgBMD-B9780807186060.webp?v=1789261603"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/john-wall-barger.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}