Days Like This Are Necessary.

Days Like This Are Necessary

Walter Bargen

BkMk Press

c/o University of Missouri - Kansas City

5101 Rockhill, Kansas City, MO 64110

9781886157705, $15.95, www.umkc.edu/bkmk

You only get better with experience. "Days Like This Are Necessary" is a collection of poetry from Walter Bargen, the first Poet Laureate of Missouri. Drawing on a long catalog of poetry, he presents a fine blend of new work and work from his past leading to an excellent book of poetry. "Days Like This Are Necessary" is an excellent collection that should not be missed. "Handmade Table": It's midnight; the lights/are off. Hands glow/in their own concentration//like someone else's gloves,/thin and old, the wrong size,/and out of style.//They shake in the only/world they know./On a scratched oak table//two hands are folded;/the right cupping the left,/the left tight as a fist.