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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Beatty, Jan

Titel

Mad River

Auflage

1st ed

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Preliminaries and editorial matter omitted.
• ""Contents ""; ""I ""; ""If This Is Sex, It Must Be Tuesday""; ""Mad River""; ""Grabbing at Beauty""; ""What We Can Count On""; ""The Rolling Rock Man""; ""Pittsburgh Poem""; ""The Order of Things""; ""1,200 lb. Man Starts on Road to 190 lbs.""; ""Fifteen Minutes at the Dairy Mart""; ""Ravenous Blue""; ""Leonard Avenue""; ""II ""; ""Highway 99""; ""Getting Through""; ""Letter to Mario""; ""As If That's All There Is""; ""Awake in a Strange Landscape""; ""An Abortion Attempt by my Mother""; ""Morning Radio""; ""fifteen""; ""Ferry at Night""; ""Watching My Father""; ""Fog""
• ""Dream with No Words""""Sucking""; ""Self-Hatred""; ""Walking in Shade""; ""Wanting to Continue""; ""III ""; ""Saving the Crippled Boy""; ""What I Want""; ""Introducing You to My Dead Father""; ""Breaking the Skin""; ""after sex on a train""; ""Love Poem""; ""Visiting My Father a Few Days Before His Operation""; ""Ghost Orchid""; ""The Space That Remains""; ""A Waitress' Instructions on Tipping orGet the Cash Up and Don't Waste My Time""; ""T-shirts""; ""Standing by the McKenzie River at Night""; ""Blue Dress""; ""Not Thinking About Gardenias""; ""Asking the Dead for Help""
• ""The Flower Garden""""One Hand on the Door""; ""Free World""; ""Acknowledgments ""
• ""In every poem, she keeps her fury contained, but omnipresent, so that it resembles a cornered dog's warning growl, yet she hints of happier possibilities."" --Booklist""Beatty does offer deeply visceral and sensory work, especially in the second and third sections of this three-part book. . . . She risks relative boldness and deep emotional commitment, disregarding political correctness in respect for this less readily sanitized realm of experience."" --Publishers Weekly""Her poems speak to us head-on, with courage and a contemporaneous eloquence."" --Yusef Komunyakaa""Raw, energetic, gritty
• Beatty, Jan