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Sandra Beasley
Sandra Beasley
Awards
Shortlisted — Library of Virginia Literary Award, 2022
Books by Sandra Beasley
I Was the Jukebox: Poems
Paperback, 2011
“[Beasley’s] lightness works best when it dapples her darkness—and when her darkness, as it often does, feels truly deep.”—Abigail Deutsch, Poetry
I Was the Jukebox: Poems
Hardback, 2010
The winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize—“fresh, crisp, and muscular.”
Count the Waves: Poems
Paperback, 2017
“Beasley uses humor and surprise like a scythe, cutting to the root of a matter.”—Washington Post
Made to Explode: Poems
Hardback, 2021
With lacerating honesty, technical mastery, and abiding compassion, Made to Explode offers volatile poems for our volatile times.
I Was the Jukebox: Poems
E Book, 2014
“[Beasley’s] lightness works best when it dapples her darkness—and when her darkness, as it often does, feels truly deep.”—Abigail Deutsch, Poetry
Count the Waves: Poems
E Book, 2015
“Beasley uses humor and surprise like a scythe, cutting to the root of a matter.”—Washington Post
Made to Explode: Poems
E Book, 2021
With lacerating honesty, technical mastery, and abiding compassion, Made to Explode offers volatile poems for our volatile times.
Made to Explode: Poems
Paperback, 2023
With lacerating honesty, technical mastery and abiding compassion,Made to Explodeoffers volatile poems for our volatile times