Red Sugar

In her third collection, Beatty travels inside the body to the blood that codes us, moving beyond the language of post-confessionialism into fourth-wave feminism, challenging notions of the "romantic" "and the "brutal" and how they exist within us and between us.

Author: Jan Beatty
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 03/20/2008
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.98w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9780822959878

About the Author
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.