Boneshaker / Jan Beatty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beatty, Jan, 1952-

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 93 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2002]

Summary:

In hard-hitting, sophisticated, often lyrical language, Jan Beatty investigates the idea of the body as cultural machine, shelter, mirage, or home. She rescripts the birth scene with girders and industrial pulleys; the womb as inhabited by a young gift architect. Structurally adventurous, the poems in Boneshaker question icons and invoke taboos, connect desire with place and class, walk the tightrope between sex and love.

ISBN:

0822957795

OCLC:

49239106