New Jersey (Wisconsin Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Andrews, Betsy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299221407 ISBN 13: 9780299221409

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007

Synopsis

Betsy Andrews’s sweeping, energetic, book-length poem pounds the pavement of the New Jersey Turnpike, driving through America—past landfills and wetlands and weapons labs—under the towering shadows of engines, oil, and war. With a disarmingly unique voice that evokes the tradition of Pound and Eliot, Whitman and Williams and Ginsberg, Andrews creates a pastiche of landscape, consciousness, history, and politics in this American age.

About this title

About the Author:

Betsy Andrews is author of She-Devil and In Trouble. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely, in publications ranging from PRACTICE to the Yemeni newspaper Culture.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

“a bus full of party delegates slouching in their friction-charged skins
rolls past the jobbing line, rolls past the meat-packing plant
toward the birth of a new convulsive nature, a countrywide husbandry,
an emotional swing, the dream of the dream of the dream of a driver,
seated and commandeering down the gaping streets of retractable housing
where the aluminum siding licks its own wounds,
and a four-year-old in the driveway
repeats to herself, you’re okay, you’re okay”—excerpt from New Jersey © The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0299221407
• ISBN 13: 9780299221409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72