{"product_id":"jackknife-new-and-selected-poems-9780822964490","title":"Jackknife: New and Selected Poems","description":"In \u003ci\u003eJackknife: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003ewe are inside the body\u003c\/i\u003e-not in a confessional voice, not autobiography-but arriving through the expanded, exploded image of many stories and genders. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The new poems leap imagistically from the known world to the purely imagined, as in the voice in \"Abortion with Gun Barrel\" \"I am the counselor, \/there are cracks in the barrel of the gun\/there is aiming\/shots of sorrow-\/ shots of light.\" Commitment to a rabid feminist voice continues, but arrival has a new ring to it, with beginnings rescripted: \"I am a bastard.\/I walk around in this body of mine.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beatty's fascination with the highway and the breakout West jackknifes at the crossroads of the brutal and the white plains of loss-the body torn down and resurrected in the twenty first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822964490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Jan Beatty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644851024028,"sku":"9780822964490","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_26522648-8538-4aec-bb79-41e351aed604.jpg?v=1603859633","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/jackknife-new-and-selected-poems-9780822964490","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}