Barter: Poems | Monica Youn
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Barter exchanges history for myth, direct speech for epistles, activity for observation . . . breathtaking. Claudia Rankine Felix the Rats hind feet could be Barbie hands same pink, same injection-molded seaming. from Electronica The poems in Barter , Monica Youns exciting first collection, negotiate transactions between scarcity and excess, pornography and abstraction, the thing and the thing seen. Rendered with a dazzling array of structures and allusions, these poems describeand becomea strange gallery of paintings and portraits. She offers a Polaroid left on a windshield, step-by-step instructions for Drawing for Absolute Beginners, a stereoscope with a box of slides. Both an homage to and a warning against nonexistent things, Barter introduces a vibrant new voice and a new way of seeing.
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