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Nobody's Jackknife

Nobody's Jackknife

Smith, Ellen McGrath

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ISBN10: 0991074289
ISBN13: 9780991074280
Publisher: West End Press
Published: Nov 15 2016
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

With insight, humor, and uncompromising honesty, Nobody's Jackknife explores power and powerlessness, violence and tenderness, addiction and love. These poems refuse to separate the mundane from the profound: Rolling Rock beer, the racial coding of baseball players, and a melodic litany of yoga asanas intertwine in this brilliant and compelling collection. In 1960s Pittsburgh, a young girl finds her way to adulthood in a family dominated by a hard-drinking, blue-collar father, brothers who excel at baseball and machismo, and a pervasive but ultimately distant Catholicism. Her mother, unable to rescue her, offers two lifelines: reading and yoga. Using an astonishing array of poetic styles, Ellen McGrath Smith shows a rare gift for subtlety, an expansive intellect, and a sometimes brutal candor in this groundbreaking debut collection.

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