Poetic Injustice - Beck, Bonnie
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In Poetic Injustice poet/cop Bonnie Beck brings to us the real life of a police officer on the beat, which turns out to be funny, heartbreaking, frustrating, nightmarish, and, most odd, loving. The encounters she describes with meth addicts, dealers, suicide corpses, families starving in heatless winter dumps, prostitutes, and various hustlers of all stripes, are rendered with unsentimental, muscular language--the poems breathe, they live. Again and again, coming in contact (as cops do) with people at the absolute worst moments of their lives, Beck does her legal duty cleanly and efficiently.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In Poetic Injustice poet/cop Bonnie Beck brings to us the real life of a police officer on the beat, which turns out to be funny, heartbreaking, frustrating, nightmarish, and, most odd, loving. The encounters she describes with meth addicts, dealers, suicide corpses, families starving in heatless winter dumps, prostitutes, and various hustlers of all stripes, are rendered with unsentimental, muscular language--the poems breathe, they live. Again and again, coming in contact (as cops do) with people at the absolute worst moments of their lives, Beck does her legal duty cleanly and efficiently. But then she goes an extra step, buying gloves for the young thief released on a chilly winter day, slipping money to a prostitute who ends up calling her Pig on the street, ordering pizza for the family of a woman and her young children living in decadent poverty, remarking mildly to herself, "strange that you are picky about the toppings." It is a stark world, in which no good deed goes unpunished, and most of the action takes place at night, with "only sorrow in the sun." The fact that the poet can continue on with any sense of hope at all is miraculous. But, somehow, she does. The worlds of poet and police officer seem to be, in fact and in fiction, a cosmos apart.
Autorenporträt
The author is a police officer in northern Vermont where she has been a patrol officer and recently a school resource officer. She won Honorable Mention in the TOP COP competition in Washington, D.C. in 2008 for her dedication to Community Policing. Bonnie Beck grew up in Western Pennsylvania coal country with her four siblings above her family's funeral home. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and went onto Meredith College in NC where she student taught fourth grade. As a police officer in Vermont, Bonnie was moved to write about her experiences as she worked with the residents on her beat. Since she has been writing poems since childhood, it was a natural to write about the life on the streets as she encountered it. Over the years, most of her poetry was long lost or given away, but after reading Jeffrey Skinner's book The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir (The Writer's Studio), she decided to keep some.