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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Jan Beatty

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By Jan Beatty
| The Rumpus
“Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
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How poet Jan Beatty drew from WAMO and "madwomen" for her latest poetry anthology

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By Rege Behe, Jan Beatty
| Pittsburgh City Paper Verified
In her latest collection, Dragstripping (University of Pittsburgh Press), Jan Beatty includes numerous poems about her father, who died almost 40 years ago, in 1986. “I keep thinking that I’m done with him, and it just keeps happening,” Beatty tells Pittsburgh City Paper. “I’m still wearing my father’s ring. I’m still very close to him. I’m not going to turn it down. I’m grateful that I’m still getting poems.
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Nothing Is a Body

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By Jan Beatty
| NewsBreak
For my birth father I wish I had the dust of you, a grave to visit. I’m running on your sea legs right now, tired of the little bits—not even leftovers. I’m a tourist in your life and I wonder: Does your heart have its own body? This sentence is not a body. Nothing. Nothing is a body until there are arms around it.
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