Red Sugar
Published on 30. March 2008
87 pages
978-0-8229-9069-7 (ISBN)
Description
In her third collection, Beatty travels inside the body to the blood that codes us, moving beyond the language of post-confessionialism into fourth-wave feminism, challenging notions of the "romantic" "and the "brutal" and how they exist within us and between us.
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Jan Beatty is the author of six previous collections of poetry, most recently The Body Wars and Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, which won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Prize. Beatty has worked as a waitress, in abortion clinics, and in maximum-security prisons and is professor emerita at Carlow University, where she directed the MFA and creative writing programs and the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. to the cracked code and the inside job
- I Saw One of Blake's Angels
- Lip
- 2. Make it Beautiful
- Skinning It
- I'll Write the Girl
- Prison Sex
- To the Well-Meaning
- Shooter
- Flurry
- Red Sugar
- 3. After Being Fired from the All-Night Greek Diner
- The Phenomenology of Sex
- American Night
- In Helena
- When Foucault Entered the Body
- The Day I Stripped
- Skeet Shooting Out West
- Cave Music-Comet, Montana
- 4. I woke in the night
- Hitchhike
- Stray
- The Long White
- The Arrangements
- Luck Was the Father
- Long White Sky
- Speculator Mine Disaster Butte, Montana, 1917
- Procession
- 5. Red Song
- Serum
- A Necessary Waist: Plath Grows Thinner Reading Stein
- 6. Love Poem w/Strat #2
- A Vegas Thing
- After
- Dreaming Door
- The Punch
- Love Poem w/Strat
- 7. after the narrowing, the map
- Daughter of Blue Lake
- Shower w/notebook
- Sitting Nude
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
