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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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49752384897297,"sku":"CIN0822961601G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008438894865,"sku":"NIN9780822961604","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822961601.jpg?v=1762422541"},{"product_id":"auction-book-amy-quan-barry-9780822967170","title":"Auction","description":"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. These poems explore the inner landscapes of both the human and animal realms, revealing them to be points along the same spectrum. At the heart of the book lies an extended study of toxic storytelling as an element of warcraft, but Barry also contemplates the death of a Buddhist master, the plight of migrants both at home and abroad, the ethics of travel and consumption, and the larger question of how and why we construct a self in order to navigate the world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49752546410769,"sku":"NGR9780822967170","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50501102567697,"sku":"CIN0822967170G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008495190289,"sku":"NIN9780822967170","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822967170.jpg?v=1762423097"},{"product_id":"asylum-book-amy-quan-barry-9780822957690","title":"Asylum","description":"Winner of the 2000 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize  2002 finalist in poetry, Society of Midland Authors  Quan Barry’s stunning debut collection has been compared to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel for the startling complexity of craft and the original sophisticated vision behind it. In these poems beauty is just as likely to be discovered on a radioactive atoll as in the existential questions raised by The Matrix.  Asylum  is a work concerned with giving voice to the displaced—both real and fictional. In \"some refrains Sam would have played had he been asked\" the piano player from Casablanca  is fleshed out in ways the film didn’t allow. Steven Seagal, Yukio Mishima, Tituba of the Salem Witch Trials, and eighteenth-century black poet Phillis Wheatley also populate these poems.  Barry engages with the world—the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, the legacy of the Vietnam war—but also tackles the broad meditative question of the individual’s existence in relation to a higher truth, whether examining rituals or questioning, \"Where is it written that we should want to be saved?\" Ultimately, Asylum finds a haven by not looking away.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50370350678289,"sku":"CIN0822957698G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008369918225,"sku":"NIN9780822957690","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822957698.jpg?v=1762422660"},{"product_id":"loose-strife-book-quan-barry-9780822963295","title":"Loose Strife","description":"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 to loose battle or sow chaos, a concept which is still very much with us more than twenty-five hundred years later.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008649855249,"sku":"NIN9780822963295","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53031093043473,"sku":"CIN0822963299G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53096616296721,"sku":"CIN0822963299VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822963299.jpg?v=1762422960"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-amy-quan-barry.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}