Sandra Beasley's Reviews
Reviews of Sandra’s Work
Jun.25.2010
Published by The Rumpus
Readers of energetic, ornate, and enthused poetry—step forward. I’ve got your woman. Sandra Beasley’s newest collection of poems, I Was The Jukebox, can best be described as...
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May.23.2010
Published by Library Journal
Think Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath as read by Dorothy Parker, and you'll hear the fine-always passionate, sometimes sexual-ironies that make up Beasley's collection, selected by...
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Apr.25.2010
Published by Publisher's Weekly
In this intelligent and witty memoir, poet Beasley (I Was the Jukebox) recounts her lifelong struggle to live a normal life while waging a battle against deadly food allergies....
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Sep.01.2010
Published by POETRY
Perhaps as a countercurrent to the disintegration constantly threatening its speakers, Jukebox is filled with efforts to catch and clench. A woman presses her hand against her...
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Apr.19.2010
Published by Publisher's Weekly
More fun than most recent books, Beasley's second collection can also get quite serious: in the best parts, the poet pretends she is any number of nonhuman things—a jukebox, an...
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Sep.01.2009
Published by Hayden's Ferry Review Blog
There is ritual in this book: a searching for ritual, a creation of ritual. There is something in this collection that is purgative of the glories and the shames of growing up...
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Oct.01.2008
Published by Rattle
Whether she is writing about allergy suffering or a philosophical analysis of American culture, Beasley insists on surprise and humor of top order. Her humor is witty, rich, and...
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Feb.01.2009
Published by Barn Owl Review
Sandra Beasley’s debut is bold and seductive, the kind of book you’d be drawn to even if you hadn’t seen it on the shelf wedged between Charles Baudelaire and Elizabeth Bishop….[W...
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About Sandra
Sandra Beasley won the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize for I Was the Jukebox, selected by Joy Harjo. Her first collection, Theories of Falling, won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize judged by Marie Howe. Her most recent book, Don't Kill the Birthday...
Connections
Causes Sandra Beasley Supports
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, The Writer's Center, Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, Food Allergy Initiative.