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Jackknife(1st Edition)
New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
by Jan Beatty
Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6449-0, ISBN: 0-8229-6449-X

"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—not in a confessional voice, not autobiography—but arriving through the expanded, exploded image of many stories and genders.   The new poems l ..."






What Saves Us
Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump
by Martín Espada, Julia Alvarez, Doug Anderson, Naomi Ayala, Benjamin Balthaser, Sean Bates, Jan Beatty, Tara Betts, Richard Blanco, Rafael Campo, Cyrus Cassells, Hayan Charara, Chen Chen, Brian Clements, Jim Daniels, Kwame Dawes, Chard Deniord, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Dante Distefano, Kathy Engle, George Evans, Tarfia Faizullah, Denice Frohman, Danielle Legros Georges, Aracelis Girmay, Ruth Goring, Adam Grabowski, Laurie Anne Guerrero, Sam Hamill, Samuel Hazo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Hoagland Everett, Lawrence Joseph, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Paul Mariani, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Marty Mcconnell, Leslie Mcgrath, Richard Michelson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, David Mura, John Murillo, Maria Nazos, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Willie Perdomo, Marge Piercy, Sasha Pimentel, Robert Pinsky, Luivette Resto, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, William Pitt Root, Patrick Rosal, Joseph Ross, Nicholas Samaras, Lauren Schmidt, Seibles Tim, Katherine Dibella Seluja, Don Share, Patricia Smith, Gary Soto, Mark Turcotte, Brian Turner, Chase Twichell, Pamela Uschuk, Elisabet Velasquez, Richard Villar, Ocean Vuong, George Wallace, Afaa M. Weaver, Eleanor Wilner, Daisy Zamora, Danez Smith, Ruth Irupé Sanabria, Elizabeth Alexander, Dr. Carolyn Forché, Demetria Martínez, Paul Martínez Pompa, Julio Marzán, Emmy Peréz, Gabriel Ramírez, Luis J. Rodríguez, Marcelo Hernández Castillo, Brenda Marie Osbey, Donald Hall, Bruce Weigl, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Torrin A. Greathouse, Adrian Louis
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Curbstone Books 2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4077-6, ISBN: 0-8101-4077-2

"This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-three poets featured include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Don ..."






Jackknife
New and Selected Poems
by Jan Beatty
136 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8244-9, ISBN: 0-8229-8244-7

"... he said, You look like you have AIDS, you better go to the hospital, you're gonna die soon. I felt the evil wash over me as I walked to my next table, stunned by this backwash of words, this bold sickness, this butcher world that's in and around ..."

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Jan Beatty

Don Share

Patricia Smith

Katherine Dibella Seluja

Lauren Schmidt

Seibles Tim

Gary Soto

Pamela Uschuk

Elisabet Velasquez

Chase Twichell


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