Barter: Poems - Paperback - 9781555973810

"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