Red Sugar.

Intro -- Contents -- 1. to the cracked code and the inside job -- I Saw One of Blake's Angels -- Lip -- 2. Make it Beautiful -- Skinning It -- I'll Write the Girl -- Prison Sex -- To the Well-Meaning -- Shooter -- Flurry -- Red Sugar -- 3. After Being Fired from the All-Night Greek Diner -- The Phenomenology of Sex -- American Night -- In Helena -- When Foucault Entered the Body -- The Day I Stripped -- Skeet Shooting Out West -- Cave Music-Comet, Montana -- 4. I woke in the night -- Hitchhike -- Stray -- The Long White -- The Arrangements -- Luck Was the Father -- Long White Sky -- Speculator Mine Disaster Butte, Montana, 1917 -- Procession -- 5. Red Song -- Serum -- A Necessary Waist: Plath Grows Thinner Reading Stein -- 6. Love Poem w/Strat #2 -- A Vegas Thing -- After -- Dreaming Door -- The Punch -- Love Poem w/Strat -- 7. after the narrowing, the map -- Daughter of Blue Lake -- Shower w/notebook -- Sitting Nude -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

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.

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