POETRY

Asylum “At once fierce and delicate, the poems in Quan Barry’s Asylum excavate truths our culture world deny…Asylum is a mindful, powerful debut.” —Alice Fulton

Asylum
“At once fierce and delicate, the poems in Quan Barry’s Asylum excavate truths our culture world deny…Asylum is a mindful, powerful debut.” —Alice Fulton

Controvertibles “This revivifying young poet writes with precision, originality, and fabulous lyrical skill…poetry like this can show us the perilous beauty of metaphor, where we are ‘both of this world & the next.’” —David Baker

Controvertibles
“This revivifying young poet writes with precision, originality, and fabulous lyrical skill…poetry like this can show us the perilous beauty of metaphor, where we are ‘both of this world & the next.’” —David Baker

Water Puppets Winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry “These poems impress with the enormous and energetic distances they travel. More impressive, however, is the focus they show on arrival.” —Alberto Álvaro Ríos

Water Puppets
Winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry “These poems impress with the enormous and energetic distances they travel. More impressive, however, is the focus they show on arrival.” —Alberto Álvaro Ríos

Loose Strife “Barry’s imagination is rich, her experience broad, and her work fastidious, so the result of her ruminations on the concept of strife is rewarding, even imposing, though her book reads less as an exercise in virtuosity and more as th

Loose Strife
“Barry’s imagination is rich, her experience broad, and her work fastidious, so the result of her ruminations on the concept of strife is rewarding, even imposing, though her book reads less as an exercise in virtuosity and more as the honed practice of the poet as both thinker and advocate.” —Pleiades Book Review

Auction New York Times 5 Best Poetry Collections of 2023 "Barry takes the crap of existence head-on, and makes art despite it: these empty and utterly human attempts/to build a perfection among the detritus."

Auction
New York Times 5 Best Poetry Collections of 2023 "Barry takes the crap of existence head-on, and makes art despite it: these empty and utterly human attempts/to build a perfection among the detritus."

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