Dragstripping: Poems

by Jan Beatty

Dragstripping, Jan Beatty’s seventh collection of poems, takes readers to the literal dragstrip, the metaphorical dragstrip of the body, and the strip club, where the ecstatic is rescripted and where women disappear and reappear in the crosscut of gender. Transgressing into and out of poetic form, Beatty writes the fractured landscape of the unknown woman, breaking rules of grammar and subverting expected speech, mixing the real and unreal, and finding elation in a strange and shifting land.

Genres: Poetry

112 pages, Paperback

Published September 3, 2024

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book starts with women who disappear in the rustbelt regions and mixes a variety of other travels that focus on discovery and loss. The travels through North America are vast, span both coasts, and encompass a lifetime of experience to fill this book.