Boneshaker

Jan Beatty’s fourth full-length poetry collection, The Switching/Yard, was named one of “30 New Books That Will Help You Rediscover Poetry” by Library Journal. The Huffington Post named her as one of ten women writers for “required reading.” Her other boo

'Wild girl fire' is what Jan Beatty calls it, 'that white-hot tearing' that ignites into art or self-destruction. Poetry against all odds. Poetry as the death-defying act. Poetry as the wild choice for a girl running reckless from the working class. Between odd jobs and odd loves, Beatty writes from the tender heart without flinching."" - Sandra Cisneros; ""In Beatty's courageous, beautiful, and harsh new book, the body is as horrifyingly without boundaries as the cosmos, as constricted as a prison cell. Boneshaker is fierce, intelligent, terrifying....A splendid new work."" - Lynn Emanuel