Smog Mother
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2022
- Category
- Nature, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781990293214
- Publish Date
- Sep 2022
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
In Smog Mother, John Wall Barger asks: What is a poet without a home? Over and over he finds answers in the joy of duende, the goblin spirit that, as Lorca says, will not approach at all if he does not see the possibility of death, if he is not convinced he will circle death's house. Ranging from an anti-government rally on the streets of Bangkok to a train trip on the Trans-Mongolian Railway, Smog Mother is the strongest collection yet from a poet writing at the height of his powers.
About the author
John Wall Barger’s work has appeared recently in CV2, The Antigonish Review, and The Malahat Review, and is forthcoming in Grain, Descant and The Best Canadian Poetry 2008. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches English literature part time at Saint Mary’s University. Pain-Proof Men is his first collection of poems.
