I Was the Jukebox Poems Author:Sandra Beasley ?[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 ... more »poems these soulful ones elbow their way to the surface of the page, smartly into the contemporary now.??Joy Harjo, prize citation