The Switching/Yard

In Jan Beatty's fourth collection she takes us through the ravaged landscape of the American West. In unflinching lines of burning lyric and relentless narrative, she forges the constructed body into movement. What is still stereotyped as the romantic journey now becomes as scarred as the Rust Belt. What lives in our collective unconscious as the Golden West becomes almost surreal, as these poems snap that vision in half with extended description of ghost explorers.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

The Switching/Yard deals with the horizontal worlds of the birth table, the continuum of gender roles, and the head-on landscape of power and home as seen through the train yards of the West.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jan Beatty
• Editore: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2013
• EAN: 9780822962410
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6241-0
• Pagine: 80
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 226 mm x 8 mm
• Peso: 181 g
• Serie: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata