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.
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
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Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Awards ... First Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board
Author: United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
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Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Railway Review
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Engineering News
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Railroad Employee Fatalities Investigated
Author: United States. Federal Railroad Administration
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Category : Railroad accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Category : Railroad accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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The South Western Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.
New York Review of the Telegraph and Telephone and Electrical Journal
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana
Author: Indiana. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
" With tables of cases reported and cited, and statutes cited and construed, and an index." (varies)
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
" With tables of cases reported and cited, and statutes cited and construed, and an index." (varies)
United States of America V. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
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