Chasing Echoes passionately brings the past to the present through nature. Walt Barger sees himself in the ocean that ". . . continues to roll waves to an empty beach," in the dawn that ". . . neatly fold s] the blanket of stars. . . in the West..." His words gracefully balance the self in nature ". . . like the spindle of a fine time piece." Barger's poetry evokes the simplicity of a past both rural and Southern. Whether he is describing overalls...
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