I Was the Jukebox - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393339666ISBN-10:393339661UPC:9780393339666Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCEAT1F77W
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.
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393339666ISBN-10:393339661UPC:9780393339666Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCEAT1F77W
Beasley, Sandra: - Sandra Beasley is the author of three previous poetry collections--including I Was the Jukebox, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize--and one memoir. The recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she lives in Washington, DC.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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