
“[Beasley’s] lightness works best when it dapples her darkness―and when her darkness, as it often does, feels truly deep.”―Abigail Deutsch, PoetryThe 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 surfa...
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (August 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780393339666
ISBN-13: 978-0393339666
ASIN: 0393339661
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.3 x 8.3 inches
Amazon Rank: 429204
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I am going to attempt to explain what I feel about this collection of poetry, without stating what has already been displayed.I like 20th century poetry. Plath and T.S Eliot are my cup of tea. However, Beasley, though a not-so-common name in public (...
age, smartly into the contemporary now.”―Joy Harjo, prize citationfrom “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 salamandershimmying through the kelp in search of shore,and under his fingers the notes slid loosefrom my belly in a long jellyrope of eggsthat took root in the mud.