Thank you to S.G. Mallett at Bruiser Mag for reviewing John Wall Barger’s poetry collection, Smog Mother.
“Barger’s lived poetics sees things bleed; the center holds too well; mere apathy is loosed upon the world; “Yeats says all that is personal soon rots / The smiles between these mothers grilling goat” caps the collection’s first sequence and the invocation Barger takes from Yeats’ “A General Introduction for my Work” is fitting in so far as Barger and Yeats share a sober sense of something like a panpsychism yet that in the living is a thingness.”
