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W.W. Norton & Company
August 2011
On Sale: August 1, 2011
90 pages
ISBN: 0393076512
EAN: 9780393076516
Kindle: B00IAH7QDY
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Fiction Poetry
β[Beasleyβs] lightness works best when it dapples her darknessβand when her darkness, as it often does, feels truly deep.ββAbigail Deutsch, Poetry
The winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets PrizeββThese 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.ββJoy Harjo, prize citation
from βThe Piano Speaksβ
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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