Barry was born in 1978, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, right in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country. After leaving his small town in 1990, Barry moved to Michigan, where he spent the next 15 years of his life moving from town to town, city to city, soaking up all the experience that life has to offer. Barry has lived in many diverse cultural and socioeconomic environments and uses his unique insight of these surroundings to create poetry that lives and breathes. Achillesa Conclusions: Early Poems, Rants, and Other Writings is a magical glimpse of life as lived and experienced through the eyes of his narrator, Achilles, whose views of life are shocking, accusatory and disgraceful, but extremely empathetic. Enjoy the ride!