Auction: Poems

Quan Barry

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In Auction, her first poetry collection in eight years, the poet, novelist, and playwright Quan Barry travels the globe in her signature quest into the existential nature of experience. These poems explore the inner landscapes of both the human and animal realms, revealing them to be points along the same spectrum. At the heart of the book lies an extended study of toxic storytelling as an element of warcraft, but Barry also contemplates the death of a Buddhist master, the plight of migrants both at home and abroad, the ethics of travel and consumption, and the larger question of how and why we construct a self in order to navigate the world.

Book Details

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publish Date: Sep 26th, 2023
Pages: 96
Language: English
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Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.83in - 0.24in - 0.35lb
EAN: 9780822967170
Categories: • American - Asian American & Pacific Islander• Women Authors

About the Author

Quan Barry is the author of three previous poetry collections: Asylum, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; Controvertibles; and Water Puppets, winner of the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of the novel She Weeps Each Time You're Born. Barry has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in both poetry and fiction. She is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Praise for this book

Praise for Loose Strife:
"Barry offers a difficult, sophisticated look at violence in personal, historical, and textual forms." --Booklist

Praise for Loose Strife:

"An intriguing aesthetic choice in this book is Barry's use of the self-referential. . . . Some of this initially comes across as unnecessary exposition, but turns out to be a declaration of a calling to follow a most disquieting muse, a sustained exploration of a moment of despair expressed in Aeschylus' Oresteia: 'Where will it end? / Where will it sink to sleep and rest, this murderous hate, this Fury?' Loose Strife, which ultimately stitches together the dark history of humanity into a single volume of verse, is Barry's most compelling response yet to that question: hate doesn't end, hate doesn't stop." --Los Angeles Review of Books

Praise for Loose Strife:

"Barry risks the lurid, and the knowing, but comes out more like a prophet, overwhelmed--sometimes sublimely so--by the first- and second-hand truths she must convey." --Publishers Weekly starred review