Walter Bargen

The Feast: Poems Walter Bargen First edition

Poetry. Writer Debra Di Blasi calls The Feast, "a work of subversive genius, particularly relevant to today's political and cultural climate." Bargen calls this latest work a prose poem sequence, meaning a collection that has the energy, rhythm, and imagery of poetry, while also having the narrative thread and characters of a novella - even if the narrative is held together by a tenuous thread, such as a repeating image. In THE FEAST, the retelling of the biblical Jonah, swallowed by a great fish, becomes the book's underlying organizing principle.