{"product_id":"9780393079326","title":"I Was the Jukebox: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e“[Beasley’s] lightness works best when it dapples her darkness—and when her darkness, as it often does, feels truly deep.”—Abigail Deutsch, \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121467441392,"sku":"9780393079326","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393079326_p0.jpg?v=1763696947","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393079326","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}