Red sugar /

"Red Sugar is tantalizing and forbidden, but it is no peepshow. The poems are raw, brash, and full of pluck, yet there is tenderness and honest emotion at the core. Jan Beatty reminds us that there is 'nothing / between us and death but one inch.' She takes us to the edge of being and...

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Main Author: Beatty, Jan, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.
Series:Pitt poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • 1. to the cracked code and the inside job
  • I Saw One of Blakeâ€?s Angels
  • Lip
  • 2. Make it Beautiful
  • Skinning It
  • Iâ€?ll Write the Girl
  • Prison Sex
  • To the Well-Meaning
  • Shooter
  • Flurry
  • Red Sugar
  • 3. After Being Fired from the All-Night Greek Diner
  • The Phenomenology of Sex
  • American Night
  • In Helena
  • When Foucault Entered the Body
  • The Day I Stripped
  • Skeet Shooting Out West
  • Cave Musicâ€?Comet, Montana
  • 4. I woke in the night
  • Hitchhike
  • Stray
  • The Long White
  • The Arrangements
  • Luck Was the FatherLong White Sky
  • Speculator Mine Disaster Butte, Montana, 1917
  • Procession
  • 5. Red Song
  • Serum
  • A Necessary Waist: Plath Grows Thinner Reading Stein
  • 6. Love Poem w/Strat #2
  • A Vegas Thing
  • After
  • Dreaming Door
  • The Punch
  • Love Poem w/Strat
  • 7. after the narrowing, the map
  • Daughter of Blue Lake
  • Shower w/notebook
  • Sitting Nude
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments