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Love Poem w/Strat #2
it’s a cross/
between/
a greek lyre and
a peach
cadillac
/it
/rings/
like a bell when/
you play it right—
my baby
plays the/
lightweight/
spring=tension
tremolo bar at the bridge/
we hit
the sweet
notes
all
night
from, Red Sugar, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008
“Love Poem w/Strat #2” makes use of lines from “The Stratocaster,” an article by David Fricke, in which he quotes guitarist Jeff Beck, Rolling Stone, issue #922, May 15, 2003.
Jan Beatty is the author of three books: Red Sugar (2008), Boneshaker (2002), and Mad River (winner, 1994 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize), all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. For the past fifteen years, Beatty has hosted and produced Prosody, a public radio show on NPR affiliate WYEP-FM featuring the work of national writers. Beatty has worked as a welfare caseworker and an abortion counselor. She worked in maximum-security prisons and was a waitress for fifteen years. She directs the creative writing program at Carlow University where she teaches the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops and in the MFA program.