Böcker av Sandra Beasley

"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 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 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.

In this intense, illuminating collection of poems, Sandra Beasley examines how intimacy is lost and gained during our travels.

"[Beasley's] lightness works best when it dapples her darkness-and when her darkness, as it often does, feels truly deep."-Abigail Deutsch, Poetry