At the Dead Center of Day
by
Walter Bargen
Price
36 pages, $6.00 paper
ISBN
1-886157-08-1
At the Dead Center of Day continues Walter Bargen's lifelong and intrepid journey into the dark heart of the 20th-century experience. Though the horrors of that journey accorded their place--from the Kristallnacht to the L.A. riots, from a flashback of the Western Front to bombers over Dresden--what sets this collection apart is its steadfast refusal to acquiesce, to give up that act of sympathy and compassion by which we will, if indeed we will, outlive this difficult century. --Sherod Santos
Like most pacifists, I'm fascinated by wars--their absurdity and the way they pass their contagion to future centuries, their legacy of deadly weaponry that keeps exploding in our faces. Walter Bargen's At the Dead Center of the Day is a major meditation on the booby-trapped rubble our planet has become. --David Ray
Bargen has published four other books of poetry, including Mysteries in the Public Domain (BkMk Press). His poems have appeared in more than 100 magazines. He received a National Endowment of the Arts writing fellowship in poetry in 1991 and received the Quarter After Eight prose prize in 1996.
