Dragstripping: Poems

by Jan Beatty

Dragstripping, 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822967278
• ISBN13: 9780822967279
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 7.6"