Additional information

Full Title

Dragstripping Poems

Author(s)

Jan Beatty

Edition
ISBN

9780822991656, 9780822967279

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

<i>Dragstripping</i>, Jan Beatty’s seventh collection of poems, takes readers to the literal dragstrip, the metaphorical dragstrip of the body, and the strip club, where the ecstatic is rescripted and where women disappear and reappear in the crosscut of gender. Transgressing into and out of poetic form, Beatty writes the fractured landscape of the unknown woman, breaking rules of grammar and subverting expected speech, mixing the real and unreal, and finding elation in a strange and shifting land.