I Was the Jukebox

By Sandra Beasley

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393339661
• ISBN13: 9780393339666
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"