JACKKNIFE - New and Selected Poems

In this new collection, 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.

About the author

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.

Summary

In Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, Beatty travels the turns and collisions of over twenty years of work. 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."

Product details

• Authors: Jan Beatty
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780822964490
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6449-0
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series; Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama