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  • American Bastard

    by Jan Beatty ...
    American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents—and continents of desire as Beatty finds her birthfather, a Canadian hockey player who’s won three Stanley Cups—and her birthmother, a working-class woman from Pittsburgh. This is not the whitewashed story, but the real story, where Beatty writes through complete ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dragstripping

    Poems

    by Jan Beatty ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Switching/Yard

    by Jan Beatty ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    In Jan Beatty's fourth collection, The Switching/Yard, she takes us through the ravaged landscape of the American West. In unflinching lines of burning lyric and relentless narrative, she forges the constructed body into movement. What is still stereotyped as the romantic journey—now becomes as scarred as the Rust Belt. What lives in our collective unconscious as the Golden West becomes almost ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Body Wars

    Poems

    by Jan Beatty ...
    Series series
    What would it take to be home in one’s body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain within and without us? Jan Beatty boldly answers that question by making a fire map of the body. These roiling poems smack into walls of meditation, only to slide down the smooth concrete into the flatline of joy. These are vital poems of dimension, of both psychic and literal travel, of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Jackknife

    New and Selected Poems

    by Jan Beatty ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    In Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, Beatty travels the turns and collisions of over twenty years of work. She moves from first-person narratives to poems that straddle the page in fragments, to lines that sprawl with long lines of train tracks. Always landing in meaning, we are inside the body—not in a confessional voice, not autobiography—but arriving through the expanded, exploded image of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Red Sugar

    by Jan Beatty ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    In her third collection, Beatty travels inside the body to the blood that codes us, moving beyond the language of post-confessionialism into fourth-wave feminism, challenging notions of the “romantic” “and the “brutal” and how they exist within us and between us. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    by Sean Thomas Dougherty ...
    Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in the Rust Belt. Finding delight in everyday moments—a night at a packed karaoke bar, a father and daughter planting a garden, a biography of LeBron James as a metaphor for Ohio—these poems take pride in the people who survive despite all odds, who keep going without any concern for glory, fighting ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Journey Prize Stories 23

    The Best of Canada's New Writers

    by Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick, Sarah Selecky ...
    Series Book 23 - Journey Prize
    Discover some of Canada's best new writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology, made possible by the generosity of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener.For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting new writers. Previous contributors -- including such now well-known, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Flash Fiction America

    73 Very Short Stories

    Edited by James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, John Dufresne ...
    A spectacular new anthology of the best short-short fiction from across the United States.It has been more than thirty years since the term "flash fiction" was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James ... Read more

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  • Best Microfiction 2023

    Best Microfiction, #5

    by Pelekinesis ...
    Series Book 5 - Best Microfiction
    The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features Deb Olin Unferth serving as final judge, four essays & other insights, and eighty-three of the world's best very short short stories. ... Read more

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  • Our Numbered Days

    by Neil Hilborn ...
    "When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly," Neil Hilborn writes in his debut full-length collection, OUR NUMBERED DAYS. In 2013, Hilborn's poem "OCD" went viral, and has amassed over 11 million views to date. While this collection ruminates on love, heartbreak, and mental illness, these ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Best American Short Stories 2014

    by Heidi Pitlor ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    "The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." — Shelf Awareness for ReadersThe Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as "a new ... Read more

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