Asylum
ISBN: 9780822979319
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pittsburgh Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

U.S. nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll, children born of Vietnamese women raped by American soldiers (and those born deformed by Agent Orange) and the effects of syphilis are matched by a willing vitriol, vengefulness and accusations in Barry's speakers. A University of Wisconsin assistant English professor and former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Barry sharpens these apostrophes with rich images deftly drawn in a cold, honed poetry: "Even here in this city of a white house, you dream of clouds/ sprouting like black lungs." (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Quan Barry is the author of three poetry collections: Asylum , Controvertibles and Water Puppets . She is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directs the MFA program in creative writing.

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