Jackknife(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by JanBeatty 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 ..."
"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 JanBeatty 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 ..."