I Was the Jukebox

by Sandra Beasley

Book Overview

"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.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393076512
• ISBN13: 9780393076516
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 8.6"