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.
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"The poems in John Wall Barger's Resurrection Pie are triumphal examples of the mystery that makes the lyric what it is. These are poems that are both easily apprehended and fathomless." - Shane McCrae "Resurrection Pie is deliciously full of event and detail. Barger, a poet of great affability, is also wonderfully unwilling to smooth over trouble or falsify reality." - Daisy Fried "Barger's new collection shows the celebrated poet shimmying in the peaks of the contemporary lyric. The poems in Resurrection Pie gather and grieve and party hard with big-hearted tenderness and a propulsively twisting imagination." - Zach Savich "Barger has an absurdist's heart, and it's a vast heart, full of grief, heartache, and enchantment. In these pages, you might find yourself in a duel with Elvis, or chatting with a ghost named Marcus Aurelius. There might be secrets buried in the yard, but Barger's expansive imagination will illuminate each of those secrets, and you will be charmed and changed." - Matthew Olzmann