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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In I was the Jukebox, Sandra Beasley eschews the speaker-as-poet convention and unleashes a collection teeming with the inanimate, the anachronistic, and the animal kingdom. She boldly channels figures from wartime and mythological culture ... In these poems Beasley continues to approach the world--with all its wiled musing, Wednesday compromises, migrating battlefields, and oversexed orchids--with clarity, humor, and compassion."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"With lacerating honesty, technical mastery, and abiding compassion, Made to Explode offers volatile poems for our volatile times. In her fourth collection, acclaimed poet Sandra Beasley interrogates the landscapes of her life. She probes memories of growing up in Virginia, in Thomas Jefferson's shadow, where liberal affluence obscured and perpetuated racist aggressions, but where the poet was simultaneously steeped in the cultural traditions of the...
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