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I Was the Jukebox

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.


Author: Sandra Beasley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/2011
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780393339666
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