ISBN-13
9780822961604
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication Date
28 August 2011
Age Range
NA - NA years
Dimensions
22.61 x 15.24 x 0.76 CM
Shipping Weight
0.16 Kg
Pages
88
Language
English
Grade Level
NA - NA
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.