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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.

I Was the Jukebox: Poems

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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.... Read more

    Publisher: WW Norton & Co
    Publication Date: 15/07/2011
    ISBN13: 9780393339666, 978-0393339666
    ISBN10: 0393339661

    Number of Pages: 92

    Fiction , Poetry

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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.

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