{"product_id":"i-was-the-jukebox-9780393339666","title":"I Was the Jukebox","description":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e from \"The Piano Speaks\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor an hour I forgot my fat self, \u003cbr\u003e my neurotic innards, my addiction to alignment.\u003cbr\u003e For an hour I forgot my fear of rain.\u003cbr\u003e For an hour I was a salamander\u003cbr\u003e shimmying through the kelp in search of shore, \u003cbr\u003e and under his fingers the notes slid loose\u003cbr\u003e from my belly in a long jellyrope of eggs\u003cbr\u003e that took root in the mud.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeasley, Sandra:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eSandra Beasley\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of three previous poetry collections--including \u003cem\u003eI Was the Jukebox\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize--and one memoir. The recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she lives in Washington, DC.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50411024908562,"sku":"9780393339666","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6956265c-a862-422a-8dc2-e5861c72bcc6.jpg?v=1729309831","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-was-the-jukebox-9780393339666","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}