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Barter: Poems

Barter: Poems

Youn, Monica

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1555973817
ISBN13: 9781555973810
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: May 1 2003
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.36 Depth: 8.86
Language: English

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.

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