I Was the Jukebox: Poems

ISBN: 0393339661

Author: Beasley, Sandra

Condition: Used

[Beasleys] lightness works best when it dapples her darkness-and when her darkness, as it often does, feels truly deep.-Abigail Deutsch, Poetry 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 citationfrom The Piano SpeaksFor 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 salamandershimmying through the kelp in search of shore,and under his fingers the notes slid loosefrom my belly in a long jellyrope of eggsthat took root in the mud.