Nobody's Jackknife by EllenMcgrathSmith Paperback, 82 Pages, Published 2016 by West End Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9910742-8-0, ISBN: 0-9910742-8-9
"With insight, humor, and uncompromising honesty, Nobody's Jackknife explores power and powerlessness, violence and tenderness, addiction and love. These poems refuse to separate the mundane from the profound: Rolling Rock beer, the racial coding of baseball players, and a melodic litany of yoga asanas intertwine in this brilliant and compelling collection. In 1960s Pittsburgh, a young girl finds her way to adulthood in a family dominate ..."
"This is a powerful collection of inspiring Women's poetry. An out spoken collection about relationships between fathers and daughters, women and lovers, and mothers to their children. The first edition of this printed work by these three women was published in 1994, before they performed for Lollapalloosa of the same year. This limited edition was reprinted last year by popular demand."
"This poetry book presents the personal narrative of a daughter with a powerful father...a police sergeant who ruled at work and in his home. This takes a first hand look from the eyes of that daughter during the father's illness which finally brings her true love of her father into reality."
"One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different voices and poetic styles. This book reconsiders the poetry activism of Cortez and Rich side-by-side, engaging poetics theory, cultural studies, and popular media ..."
"One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different voices and poetic styles. This book reconsiders the poetry activism of Cortez and Rich side-by-side, engaging poetics theory, cultural studies, and popular media ..."
""Hammer and Blaze" provides a true cross-section of the best contemporary poets writing in North America today. Editors Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHugh have brought together the work of sixty poets who have taught at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, one of the most respected and influential writing programs of its kind.The stellar group of contributors includes MacArthur fellows Campbell McGrath, Anne Carson, Edward Hirs ..."