Jackknife: New and Selected Poems

Author:   Jan Beatty
Publisher:   University of Pittsburgh Press
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9780822964490


Pages:   168
Publication Date:   14 February 2017
Format:   Paperback
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"In Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, Beatty travels the turns and collisions of over twenty years of work. She moves from first-person narratives to poems that straddle the page in fragments, to lines that sprawl with long lines of train tracks. Always landing in meaning, we are inside the body—not in a confessional voice, not autobiography—but arriving through the expanded, exploded image of many stories and genders. The new poems leap imagistically from the known world to the purely imagined, as in the voice in ""Abortion with Gun Barrel"": ""I am the counselor,/there are cracks in the barrel of the gun/there is aiming/shots of sorrow—/ shots of light."" Commitment to a rabid feminist voice continues, but arrival has a new ring to it, with beginnings rescripted: ""I am a bastard./I walk around in this body of mine."" Beatty's fascination with the highway and the breakout West jackknifes at the crossroads of the brutal and the white plains of loss—the body torn down and resurrected in the twenty first century."

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Author:   Jan Beatty
Publisher:   University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint:   University of Pittsburgh Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9780822964490


ISBN 10:   082296449
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   14 February 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Past praise for <i>Mad River: </i> [Her] poems speak to us head-on, with courage and a contemporaneous eloquence. --Yusef Komunyakaa


Past praise for <i>Mad River: </i> [Her] poems speak to us head-on, with courage and a contemporaneous eloquence. Yusef Komunyakaa


Past praise for Mad River: -[Her] poems speak to us head-on, with courage and a contemporaneous eloquence.- --Yusef Komunyakaa


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Jan Beatty’s fourth full-length poetry collection, The Switching/Yard, was named one of “30 New Books That Will Help You Rediscover Poetry” by Library Journal. The Huffington Post named her as one of ten women writers for “required reading.” Her other boo

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