num_pages: 104
description: In hard-hitting, sophisticated, often lyrical language, Jan Beatty investigates the idea of the body as cultural machine, shelter, mirage, or home. She rescripts the birth scene with girders and industrial pulleys; the womb as inhabited by a young girl architect. Structurally adventurous, the poems in Boneshaker question icons and invoke taboos, connect desire with place and class, walk the tightrope between sex and love.
language: English
title: Boneshaker
titlecomplete: Boneshaker (Pitt Poetry Series)
genres: Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 99
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press