John Wall Barger is the author of seven collections of poems and a book of essays. A contract editor with Frontenac House, he lives just outside Philadelphia.
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"Garmonbozia! From the House of Lynch, Fix Your Hearts or Die! is a fitting, lyrical festschrift for the visionary auteur who enabled artists, poets, musicians, and cinephiles to step boldly into their dreamy, angelic, associative, and mysterious worlds."-Major Jackson "Poetry is never confined to poems-and it suffuses David Lynch's sense of narrative, sound, meaning, and stillness. Lynch was a great lover of the 'vast consciousness' found in meditation, but he was also a lover of the grinding sounds of Man at his strange instruments. In all the tactile mediums that Lynch touched, at heart he was a poet of this dichotomy of language and silence. The poets here intuit the pure orchestration, the echoes, of this mixed-media man and trace consciousness itself, uttering back to the unknowable. Even to the end, Lynch seemed utterly joyful at the creative act. In this joy he enabled us tolerance of an enormous darkness never shied from. He gave us poetry of the eye and ear-the White and Black Lodge held in each of us. This stunning anthology shows how richly we can converse the untranslatable, poet to poet to poet."-Bianca Stone