Water Puppets (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822961604)

Winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry In 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 \u201cmeditations\u201d 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 pros poem \u201csnapshots\u201d 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.

Author: Quan Barry
ISBN-10: 0822961601
ISBN-13: 9780822961604
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2011
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.30d
Award: Literary Award - Runner-Up

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/25/2011
Library Journal 07/01/2011 pg. 84