Resurrection pie / John Wall Barger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barger, John Wall, 1969- Author.

Standardized Title:

Resurrection pie (Compilation) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/9b61a792-d1c5-1d16-5319-36e3af779b9b

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

91 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"A 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 begins coughing up red flower petals; a man walks backward across Philadelphia, as bodies begin rising out of the ground; a boy watches his dead sister's flea circus through a magnifying glass. In language by turns vivid and destabilizing, Barger writes the odd, the marvelous, the wounded, with unguarded clarity and a gift for metaphor. Resurrection Pie is a work of serious play - absurd, intimate, melancholic - dispatches from inside the fever dream"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version Barger, John Wall, 1969- Resurrection pie

ISBN:

9780807186060

0807186066

OCLC:

1547896179