Days Like This Are Necessary: New and Selected Poems

Poetry. DAYS LIKE THIS ARE NECESSARY includes new poems as well as highlights from the 13-book career of Walter Bargen, first poet laureate of Missouri. Kevin Prufer writes in his foreword to the book, "His work is technically sophisticated, rhythmically subtle, and emotionally complex, but--and here's the trick--it's also the kind of poetry that one might offer to someone who says he doesn't like poetry much, someone who says he doesn't `get' poetry, someone who prefers mysteries or history books or biographies.... In a perfect world, this book will go a long way toward bringing Walter Bargen's poetry to the much wider audience it deserves."