Barter: Poems

by Monica Youn

Book Overview

"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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555973817
• ISBN13: 9781555973810
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 8.9"