I Was the Jukebox by Sandra Beasley

I Was the Jukebox

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393339666
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
92
Authors:
Sandra Beasley
Published Date:
2011-08-01
Language:
English
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About Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley is the author of four poetry collections, beginning with Theories of Falling (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2008), which won the New Issues Poetry Prize in a judging by Marie Howe. I Was the Jukebox (W. W. Norton, 2010) won the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joy Harjo, and was followed by Count the Waves (Norton, 2015) and Made to Explode (Norton, 2021). She also wrote Don't Kill the Birthday Girl, a disability memoir and cultural history of food allergies, and edited the anthology Vinegar and Char. She received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 2015.

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