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I Was the Jukebox|Sandra Beasley

I Was the Jukebox

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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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393339666
  • ISBN-10: 0393339661
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: August 2011
  • Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
  • Page Count: 92

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