Boneshaker / Jan Beatty
- Author
- Beatty, Jan, 1952-
- Published
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2002]
- Copyright Date
- ©2002
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (104 pages).
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- Series
- Contents
- ""CONTENTS""; ""I ""; ""MACHINE SHOP OF LOVE""; ""PENITENTIARY""; ""MY MOTHER AND AUNT CHARLOTTE TALK DISASTERS AT SCHMOTZER�S VILLAGE BAKERY""; ""GOING DEEP FOR JESUS""; ""KILLING CHATTY-CATHY""; ""POETRY WORKSHOP AT THE HOMELESS SHELTER""; ""CRUISING WITH THE CHECK-OUT GIRLS""; ""MAKING BABY""; ""CERTAIN THINGS""; ""MY FATHER TEACHES ME DESIRE""; ""II ""; ""NEAR THE FOUNDLING HOME""; ""DEAD JONES""; ""MY FATHER TEACHES ME TO DREAM""; ""WHO�S THE PRESIDENT?""; ""MIKE�S HOAGIE HUT, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA, 1971""; ""MODERN LOVE""; ""LOUISE""; ""I�D GIVE ANYTHING"", ""IN THE BRILLIANCE""""ARIA FOR THE BODY""; ""III ""; ""I CAN GET THAT ANYWHERE""; ""MY FATHER TEACHES ME SOLIDARITY""; ""AT BUCKEY�S, SHERIDAN, WYOMING""; ""REPORT FROM THE SKINHOUSE""; ""DRIVE, SHE SAID""; ""BONESHAKER""; ""MY FATHER TEACHES ME LONGING""; ""RELENTLESS""; ""THE WAITRESS ANGELS SPEAK TO ME IN A VISION""; ""DEAR MOTHER, MACHINE,""; ""STEPPING OVER THE BODY""; ""VANISHING""; ""IV""; ""HEARING VOICES""; ""HOW I FELL IN LOVE IN PITTSBURGH""; ""WHITE EVERYTHING, NEW MEXICO""; ""SPEAKING CORVETTE""; ""CROSSING OVER""; ""WHAT�S FOR DINNER?"", and AFTER THERAPY, I DREAM OF KEITH RICHARDS & THE FAILURE OF LANGUAGEMY FATHER TEACHES ME LIGHT -- ZEN OF TIPPING -- THE KILL -- SEIZURE -- CRUISING THE BLUE BELT -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Summary
- ""Language that's often raw but honest, fresh and real (not to mention quite beautiful at times). ... Buy it.""--Pittsburgh Magazine""[Beatty's] writing style ... reflects a down-to-earth woman concerned with humanity."" --City Paper""'Wild girl fire' is what Jan Beatty calls it, 'that white-hot tearing' that ignites into art or self-destruction. Poetry against all odds. Poetry as the death-defying act. Poetry as the wild choice for a girl running reckless from the working class. Between odd jobs and odd loves, Beatty writes from the tender heart without flinching."" --Sandra Cisneros""Wh
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- ISBN
- 9780822990857 (electronic bk.)
0822990857 (electronic bk.)
0822957795 (acid-free paper)
9780822957799
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