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Boneshaker

In hard-hitting, sophisticated, often lyrical language, Jan Beatty investigates the idea of the body as cultural machine, shelter, mirage, or home. She rescripts the birth scene with girders and industrial pulleys; the womb as inhabited by a young girl architect. Structurally adventurous, the poems in Boneshaker question icons and invoke taboos, connect desire with place and class, walk the tightrope between sex and love.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 104
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780822957799
  • Genres
  • poetry, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2002