Water puppets / Quan Barry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barry, Quan, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (87 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry In her third poetry collection, Quan Barry explores the universal image of war as evidenced in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as Vietnam, the country of her birth. In the long poem "meditations" Barry examines her own guilt in initially supporting the invasion of Iraq. Throughout the manuscript she investigates war and its aftermath by negotiating between geographically disparate landscapes-from the genocide in the Congo-to a series of pros poem "snapshots" of modern day Vietnam. Despite the gravity of war, Barry also turns her signature lyricism to other topics such as the beauty of Peru or the paintings of Ana Fernandez.

Contents:

Lion

Learning the tones

Galilee

Reportage

Black cricket in the doorway, on the ceiling, in

Arsenal

Lament

Arequipa

Cruz del Condor

Monasterio de Santa Catalina

Thanksgiving

Different location, same outcome

Sunday essay

Sweeney on her wedding night

Meditations

If only I had been able to form the idea of a substance that was spiritual

Self-portrait with a pair of open scissors

De natura vincularum

Effigy

Quan Âm

Poem

History

Vigil

Ode.

Notes:

"Winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry"--Cover.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 8, 2014).

"Donald Hall Prize, 2010"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780822978312

0822978318

OCLC:

867785109