{"product_id":"i-was-the-jukebox-poems-0393339661-used","title":"I Was the Jukebox: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393339661\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Beasley, Sandra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68029126410528,"sku":"USED0393339661","price":8.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61IP-fIWuDL_68b006ee-52b2-43af-8d90-b476896bc5bf.jpg?v=1793166648","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/i-was-the-jukebox-poems-0393339661-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}