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I Was the Jukebox

Poems

Sandra Beasley author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:15th Jul '11

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The winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize—“These poems are fresh, crisp, and muscular. They are decisive and fearless. Every object, icon, or historical moment has a soul with a voice. In these poems these soulful ones elbow their way to the surface of the page, smartly into the contemporary now.”—Joy Harjo, prize citation

from “The Piano Speaks”
For an hour I forgot my fat self,
my neurotic innards, my addiction to alignment.
For an hour I forgot my fear of rain.
For an hour I was a salamander
shimmying through the kelp in search of shore,
and under his fingers the notes slid loose
from my belly in a long jellyrope of eggs
that took root in the mud.

"Succeeds (to a tremendous level) at creating fascinating slices of reality and interesting characters." -- Adam Palumbo

ISBN: 9780393339666

Dimensions: 211mm x 142mm x 8mm

Weight: 129g

92 pages