Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space Poems, Catherine Barnett Justin Barton immigration

immigration

resolves to make a life restoring one foreclosed home after another

selected and translated from three of his Chinese story collections: The Bleary-Eyed Traveler (2006)

fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother

from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space Poems, Catherine Barnett Justin Barton immigrationThe loneliness that collects in mirrors and facesat bedside vigils and in city streetsquickens Catherine Barnetts metaphysical poems, which are like speculative prescriptions for this common human experience. Here loneliness is filled with belonging, which is in turn filled with loneliness, each state suffused and emptied by the other. Barnetts fourth collection is part manifesto, part how to manual, part apologia: a guide to the homeopathic dangers