Jackknife

New and Selected Poems
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6449-0
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Pitt Poetry Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beatty, Jan

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Beatty is the author of four previous poetry collections: The Switching/Yard, Red Sugar, Boneshaker, and Mad River, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of the Creative Achievement Award in Literature from the Heinz Foundation, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2013, among other honors. Beatty is cohost and producer of Prosody, a weekly radio program featuring the work of national writers. She is the director of the creative writing program at Carlow University.