Nobody's Jackknife
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (835 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0991074289 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 82 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In 1960s Pittsburgh, a young girl finds her way to adulthood in a family dominated by a hard-drinking, blue-collar father, brothers who excel at baseball and machismo, and a pervasive but ultimately distant Catholicism. Her mother, unable to rescue her, offers two lifelines: reading and yoga. With insight, humor, and uncompromising honesty, Nobody's Jackknife explores power and powerlessness, violence and tenderness, addiction and love. These poems refuse to separate the mundane from the profound: Rolling Rock beer, the racial coding of baseball players, and a melodic litany of yoga asanas intertwine in this brilliant and compelling collection. Using an astonishing array of poetic styles, Ellen McGrath Smith shows a rare gift f
She lives, writes, works, and practices yoga in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she was born and raised. . About the AuthorEllen McGrath Smith's award-winning poetry, short fiction, literary criticism, and scholarship have been published in anthologies and print and online journals nationwide. She has received the Zone 3 Rainmaker Award, the Orlando Prize from the A Room of Her Own Foundation, and other honors. A teacher at the University of Pittsburgh and Carlow University, McGrath Smith holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in English literature from Duquesne University
Ellen McGrath Smith's award-winning poetry, short fiction, literary criticism, and scholarship have been published in anthologies and print and online journals nationwide. . She has received the Zone 3 Rainmaker Award, the Orlando Prize from the A Room of Her Own Foundation, and other honors. A teacher at the University of Pittsb
"A poetry collection with character, narrative, and craft." according to Mary Soon Lee. Ellen McGrath Smith's first poetry collection ranges over drinking, alcoholism, growing up, men, women, baseball, yoga. There are poems that speak about loneliness, about love, about yearning for a father's love. The poems read easily, but only because the poet has mastered her craft. Their content is usually serious and o. "Like a good yoga pose" according to Elizabeth Hoover. Like a good yoga pose, Ellen McGrath Smith’s collection “Nobody’s Jackknife” mixes effort and ease; the book is structured but Smith knows exactly where to let go.The book is split: alcoholism and yoga, mother and father, searching for and finding love. The first half of the book grapples with addic