the driving force in these poems, the dimmer, harsher realities of postwar Europe are new territory for [Walter] Bargen. The result is often haunting, showing in stark detail the intersection of a young imagination with bullet-riddled walls and buried shell casings."I saw the black outline of a machine gun/exposed by the retreating water/but I couldn't swim the current to save it," he writes in "Lost Ordnance."
from St Louis Post-Dispatch: Poet Bargen writes of postwar Europe in 'Endearing Ruins'
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