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.
General
Imprint: |
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Pitt Poetry Series |
Release date: |
April 2017 |
Authors: |
Jan Beatty
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Dimensions: |
230 x 150 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
168 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8229-6449-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8229-6449-X |
Barcode: |
9780822964490 |
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