The Body Wars

by Jan Beatty

2020-12-30 07:18:04

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What would it take to be home in one’s body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain within and without us? Jan Beatty boldly answers that question by making a fire map of the body. These roiling poems smack into walls of meditati... Read more
What would it take to be home in one’s body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain within and without us? Jan Beatty boldly answers that question by making a fire map of the body. These roiling poems smack into walls of meditation, only to slide down the smooth concrete into the flatline of joy. These are vital poems of dimension, of both psychic and literal travel, of the elasticity of truth and struggle, of the daily nature of desire that brings us to our knees—then shotguns us back to the heart’s center.   Yellow Sky                                                                                                                  The summer that I had nowhere to live:   the sky was yellow everywhere. The cars of other people had their own private shine.   I walked slowly. Several birds re-visited the backyards of strangers,   I was free singing the song of the last thing I didn’t say to you. Less

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File size9 X 6 X 0.68 in
Print pages76
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date September 22, 2020
Languageeng
ISBN9780822987833
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Jan Beatty has won, in addition to the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has held jobs as a welfare caseworker, a rape counselor, and a nurse's...

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