Loose Strife

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.

Author: Quan Barry
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 01/07/2015
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780822963295

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/19/2015
Booklist 02/15/2015 pg. 21
Library Journal 03/01/2015 pg. 92

About the Author
Quan Barry is the author of three previous poetry collections: Asylum, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; Controvertibles; and Water Puppets, winner of the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of the novel She Weeps Each Time You're Born. Barry has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in both poetry and fiction. She is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.