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Barter / Monica Youn.
Van Pelt Library PS3625.O94 B37 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Youn, Monica.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 71 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- " Barter exchanges history for myth, direct speech for epistles, activity for observation . . . breathtaking." - Claudia Rankine "Felix the Rat' s hind feet" "could 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.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 1555973817
- OCLC:
- 52298877
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