Jan Beatty

The Body Wars (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What would it take to be home in one's body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain within and without us? Jan Beatty boldly answers that question by making a fire map of the body. These roiling poems smack into walls of meditation, only to slide down the smooth concrete into the flatline of joy. These are vital poems of dimension, of both psychic and literal travel, of the elasticity of truth and struggle, of the daily nature of desire that brings us to our knees-then shotguns us back to the heart's center. Yellow Sky The summer that I had nowhere to live: the sky was yellow everywhere.The cars of other people had their own private shine. I walked slowly.Several birds re-visited the backyards of strangers, I was freesinging the song of the last thing I didn t say to you.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822987833
• Artikelnr.: 72254764

Autorenporträt

Jan Beatty is the author of six previous collections of poetry, most recently The Body Wars and Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, which won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Prize. Beatty has worked as a waitress, in abortion clinics, and in maximum-security prisons and is professor emerita at Carlow University, where she directed the MFA and creative writing programs and the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops.