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Jackknife : new and selected poems /

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--no...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beatty, Jan, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Colección:Pitt poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • New Poems; 1.; Inside the Cardinal; Stricken; The Kindness; The Secret Book and Record Store; Asylum; Abortion with Gun Barrel; The World between Jim Morrison's Legs; Low-Rider; Lake is a red pigment; She Set Me Swimming; Dropping Blotter Acid at the Slag Dump; 2.; Praise Blue; Surfing Cowboys; The Snapping; The Boy from Hazard; Blue Rider; An eater, or swallowhole, is a reach of stream; Against Suicide; Taking Off, I Talk to the Dead; Wedding Shoes; I Knew I Wasn't Poor; Muscle Beach, Venice, 2013; from Mad River; If This Is Sex, It Must Be Tuesday; Mad River; The Rolling Rock Man.
  • Pittsburgh PoemRavenous Blue; Highway 99; Letter to Mario; An Abortion Attempt by my Mother; Sucking; Saving the Crippled Boy; after sex on a train; A Waitress' Instructions on Tipping or Get the Cash Up and Don't Waste My Time; from Boneshaker; Machine Shop of Love; Penitentiary; My Mother and Aunt Charlotte Talk Disasters at Schmotzer's Village Bakery; Going Deep for Jesus; Poetry Workshop at the Homeless Shelter; My Father Teaches Me Desire; Near the Foundling Home; My Father Teaches Me to Dream; Boneshaker; My Father Teaches Me Light; Zen of Tipping; Cruising the Blue Belt; from Red Sugar.
  • I Saw One of Blake's AngelsLip; Shooter; Red Sugar; The Phenomenology of Sex; When Foucault Entered the Body; The Day I Stripped; Red Song; Serum; A Necessary Waist: Plath Grows Thinner Reading Stein; Dreaming Door; The Punch; Love Poem w/Strat; Daughter of Blue Lake; from the Switching/Yard; Visitation at Gogama; California Corridor; My Mother Was a Dress; Sister as Moving Object; Three Faces and All These Fallen Gods; Delicious; Top-10 List; Youngest Known Savior; Reading Wanda Coleman on the California Zephyr; The Switching/Yard; The Hit Man; Ghostdaddys; Dear American Poetry.
  • Drinking the Lizard KingNotes on a Nevada Flood; Notes; Acknowledgments.