Author: Jan Beatty
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978709
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
In Jan Beatty’s fourth collection, The Switching/Yard, she takes us through the ravaged landscape of the American West. In unflinching lines of burning lyric and relentless narrative, she forges the constructed body into movement. What is still stereotyped as the romantic journey—now becomes as scarred as the Rust Belt. What lives in our collective unconscious as the Golden West becomes almost surreal, as these poems snap that vision in half with extended description of ghost explorers. We see the open truck cab, the farm workers on the corner waiting for pick-up; we see the speaker returning west to find the long-abandoned story of the birthfather. There is no stable landscape here except the horizontal action of moving through. Landscape becomes story. In this extended tale of the idea of family, we find stand-ins for the father in the form of a hit man, Jim Morrison, and ultimately the unyielding road takes the place of the body. The Switching/Yard is at once the horizontal world of the birth table where babies are switched, the complex yard of the body where gender routinely shifts and switches, and the actual switching yard of the trains that run the inevitable tracks of this book.
The Switching/Yard
Author: Jan Beatty
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978709
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
In Jan Beatty’s fourth collection, The Switching/Yard, she takes us through the ravaged landscape of the American West. In unflinching lines of burning lyric and relentless narrative, she forges the constructed body into movement. What is still stereotyped as the romantic journey—now becomes as scarred as the Rust Belt. What lives in our collective unconscious as the Golden West becomes almost surreal, as these poems snap that vision in half with extended description of ghost explorers. We see the open truck cab, the farm workers on the corner waiting for pick-up; we see the speaker returning west to find the long-abandoned story of the birthfather. There is no stable landscape here except the horizontal action of moving through. Landscape becomes story. In this extended tale of the idea of family, we find stand-ins for the father in the form of a hit man, Jim Morrison, and ultimately the unyielding road takes the place of the body. The Switching/Yard is at once the horizontal world of the birth table where babies are switched, the complex yard of the body where gender routinely shifts and switches, and the actual switching yard of the trains that run the inevitable tracks of this book.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978709
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
In Jan Beatty’s fourth collection, The Switching/Yard, she takes us through the ravaged landscape of the American West. In unflinching lines of burning lyric and relentless narrative, she forges the constructed body into movement. What is still stereotyped as the romantic journey—now becomes as scarred as the Rust Belt. What lives in our collective unconscious as the Golden West becomes almost surreal, as these poems snap that vision in half with extended description of ghost explorers. We see the open truck cab, the farm workers on the corner waiting for pick-up; we see the speaker returning west to find the long-abandoned story of the birthfather. There is no stable landscape here except the horizontal action of moving through. Landscape becomes story. In this extended tale of the idea of family, we find stand-ins for the father in the form of a hit man, Jim Morrison, and ultimately the unyielding road takes the place of the body. The Switching/Yard is at once the horizontal world of the birth table where babies are switched, the complex yard of the body where gender routinely shifts and switches, and the actual switching yard of the trains that run the inevitable tracks of this book.
The Northwestern Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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The Southeastern Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Engineering News
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Bulletin - American Railway Engineering Association
Author: American Railway Engineering Association
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Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Vols. for 19 - include the directory issue of the American Railway Engineering Association.
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Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Vols. for 19 - include the directory issue of the American Railway Engineering Association.
Reports of Cases Determined in the Appellate Courts of Illinois
Author: Illinois. Appellate Court
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Freight Terminals and Trains
Author: John Albert Droege
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Category : Railroad Stations
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Railroad Stations
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The Federal Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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