Water Puppets

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryIn 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 prose 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-08-28
Mått152 x 229 x 8 mm
Vikt159 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePitt Poetry Series
Antal sidor88
FörlagUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN9780822961604
UtmärkelserRunner-up for Literary Award (Open Book) 2012

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