Download or read book Dragstripping written by Jan Beatty and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.