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Amy Quan Barry
Second book by an acclaimed young poet. This volume features more of Barry’s refined brilliance and delicate lyricism, cast in a more meditative mode.
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Winner of the 2000 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, a stunning debut collection revealing a mature complexity of craft and an original sophisticated vision.
Winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Quan Barry explores the universal image of war as evidenced in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as Vietnam, the country of…
In poems initially inspired by Aeschylus’ fifth-century B.C. trilogy The Oresteia, which chronicles the fall of the House of Atreides, Loose Strife investigates the classical sense of loose strife, namely…
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.