Barter: Poems
Paperback or Softback 64 pages May 01, 2003
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"Barter exchanges history for myth, direct speech for epistles, activity for observation . . . breathtaking." --Claudia Rankine Felix the Rat's hind feetcould be Barbie hands-- same pink, same injection-molded seaming.--from "Electronica" The poems in Barter, Monica Youn's exciting first collection, negotiate transactions between scarcity and excess, pornography and abstraction, the thing and the thing seen. Rendered with a dazzling array of structures and allusions, these poems describe--and become--a strange gallery of paintings and portraits. She offers a Polaroid left on a windshield, step-by-step instructions for "Drawing for Absolute Beginners," a stereoscope with a box of slides. Both an homage to and a warning against nonexistent things, Barter introduces a vibrant new voice and a new way of seeing.
- Author:
- Monica Youn
- Publisher:
- Graywolf Press
- Publication Date:
- May 01, 2003
- Number of pages:
- 64 pages
- Binding:
- Paperback or Softback
- ISBN-10:
- 1555973817
- ISBN-13:
- 9781555973810