Quan Barry‘s latest book, Water Puppets, won the AWP Poetry Prize. Her debut novel, She Weeps Each Time You’re Born, will be published by Pantheon in 2015.
Poetry
Spring 2006
Deconstructionism
No relations for ten years because languagehas failed me. Take the Tractatusor even Nietzsche—the performativity of it all—everything in the name of having it his way.Totality. Diamonds. I believe love […]
Poetry
Spring 2006
Essentialism
The etiolated light, the binarismson either side of the horizon—control, ignorance,disregard, want—the black dog cowering in the kitchen where I used to love.Now walk away, now crutch a pathinto the […]
Poetry
Spring 2002
Butterfly
for Edmund Barry This is what they told me: position is everything. Raise your arms 135°, elbows bent like parentheses, palms face front, fingers cupped together like the bowl of […]
Poetry
Spring 2002
Porte des Morts as Neutrino
Today the road is pure allegory—leaves down, the woods a city of bones, acres twisting on acres. I think of my own body, how each second the smallest of particles […]
Poetry
Spring 2002
Crossing the South China Sea as Analgesia
One day we will all be like this—the boat's sickening pitch, & the delicateness needless, consumable. How everything here naturally passes into night, a room w/o walls. Could mindlessness keep […]