Barter

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Barter exchanges history for myth, direct speech for epistles, activity for observation … breathtaking. –Claudia Rankine

Felix the Rat’s hind feet could be Barbie hands– same pink, same
injection-molded seaming.–from Electronica

The poems in Barter, Monica Youn’s exciting first collection, negotiate transactions between scarcity and excess, pornography and abstraction, the thing and the thing seen. Rendered with a dazzling array of structures and allusions, these poems describe–and become–a strange gallery of paintings and portraits. She offers a Polaroid left on a windshield, step-by-step instructions for Drawing for Absolute Beginners, a stereoscope with a box of slides. Both an homage to and a warning against nonexistent things, Barter introduces a vibrant new voice and a new way of seeing.