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A new collection of poetry from Jan Beatty, author of Body Wars.

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"In her eighth brilliant collection, Beatty once again proves herself a skilled master poet who sings of loss, grief, and trauma--but she also whispers a refrain of dynamic resolve: 'Now I'm a heart without a head, walking. / I don't need to be right-- / I just need it to be worth it . . .'--Ellen Bass, author of Indigo Jan Beatty has written a wildly associative and resolutely secular rebel's 'lives of the saints'--one in which her love for rock and the blues is contiguous with her working-class roots, and in which familial, communal, and sexual love coalesce into unforgettable portraits of democratic life on the brink of revelation. You'll find no stick-figure pieties or fool's gold politics here. Everything the poet sees, she sees with the precise eye of passion.--Tom Sleigh, author of The King's Touch Jan Beatty writes at full throttle, a plunge into the self without flinching. These poems are highways, the finish lines smoking with 'the truth that drags and bitters.' Stories stripped raw. Brave, honest, death-defying, Beatty's poetry roars.--Sandra Cisneros, author of Woman without Shame ""In her eighth brilliant collection, Beatty once again proves herself a skilled master poet who sings of loss, grief, and trauma--but she also whispers a refrain of dynamic resolve: 'Now I'm a heart without a head, walking. / I don't need to be right-- / I just need it to be worth it . . .'"" --Ellen Bass, author of Indigo ""Jan Beatty has written a wildly associative and resolutely secular rebel's 'lives of the saints'--one in which her love for rock and the blues is contiguous with her working-class roots, and in which familial, communal, and sexual love coalesce into unforgettable portraits of democratic life on the brink of revelation. You'll find no stick-figure pieties or fool's gold politics here. Everything the poet sees, she sees with the precise eye of passion."" --Tom Sleigh, author of The King's Touch ""Jan Beatty writes at full throttle, a plunge into the self without flinching. These poems are highways, the finish lines smoking with 'the truth that drags and bitters.' Stories stripped raw. Brave, honest, death-defying, Beatty's poetry roars."" --Sandra Cisneros, author of Woman without Shame"

"""In her eighth brilliant collection, Beatty once again proves herself a skilled master poet who sings of loss, grief, and trauma--but she also whispers a refrain of dynamic resolve: 'Now I'm a heart without a head, walking. / I don't need to be right-- / I just need it to be worth it . . .'"" --Ellen Bass, author of Indigo ""Jan Beatty has written a wildly associative and resolutely secular rebel's 'lives of the saints'--one in which her love for rock and the blues is contiguous with her working-class roots, and in which familial, communal, and sexual love coalesce into unforgettable portraits of democratic life on the brink of revelation. You'll find no stick-figure pieties or fool's gold politics here. Everything the poet sees, she sees with the precise eye of passion."" --Tom Sleigh, author of The King's Touch ""Jan Beatty writes at full throttle, a plunge into the self without flinching. These poems are highways, the finish lines smoking with 'the truth that drags and bitters.' Stories stripped raw. Brave, honest, death-defying, Beatty's poetry roars."" --Sandra Cisneros, author of Woman without Shame"

In her eighth brilliant collection, Beatty once again proves herself a skilled master poet who sings of loss, grief, and trauma--but she also whispers a refrain of dynamic resolve: 'Now I'm a heart without a head, walking. / I don't need to be right-- / I just need it to be worth it . . .'--Ellen Bass, author of Indigo Jan Beatty has written a wildly associative and resolutely secular rebel's 'lives of the saints'--one in which her love for rock and the blues is contiguous with her working-class roots, and in which familial, communal, and sexual love coalesce into unforgettable portraits of democratic life on the brink of revelation. You'll find no stick-figure pieties or fool's gold politics here. Everything the poet sees, she sees with the precise eye of passion.--Tom Sleigh, author of The King's Touch Jan Beatty writes at full throttle, a plunge into the self without flinching. These poems are highways, the finish lines smoking with 'the truth that drags and bitters.' Stories stripped raw. Brave, honest, death-defying, Beatty's poetry roars.--Sandra Cisneros, author of Woman without Shame

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Jan Beatty is the author of six previous collections of poetry, most recently The Body Wars and Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, which won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Prize. Beatty has worked as a waitress, in abortion clinics, and in maximum-security prisons and is professor emerita at Carlow University, where she directed the MFA and creative writing programs and the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops.

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