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""Music in Patty Seyburn's lively Jukebox is a conveyance for memories that, like the songs, may end but keep reverberating. A whole life is assessed here while the records play again, 'and if the cerebellum's gears make music from my mental mayhem, all the better.' Those gears are spinning splendidly, all the better for us.""-Ron Slate Patty Seyburn in Jukebox tap dances for our pleasure through a world--no, a galaxy, a time-traveling cosmic playbook--of pop music memories with dashes of maybe Brahms and Stravinsky, or Plato and Heraclitus and Plutarch, or American history on the side. These are poems of inspired chatty energy, delighted and delightful vitality, plus nowhere else can you learn that ""exactly the same letters/ can be found in silent and listen.""-Alicia Ostriker ""There is a lifetime in these pages, moving through countries and decades, from listening to the first bars of a forbidden Rod Stewart song in a car with parents, to the age when we notice 'a constellation of spots' across the knuckles, from DJing a jazz show, to hurling one's body into a mosh pit. These are smart poems, with subtle blasts of humor, and they wrestle with tough questions. Pull up a chair besides Patty Seyburn's Jukebox and listen.""-Jeffrey McDaniel

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Patty Seyburn has published six books of poems: Jukebox (What Books Press, 2025), Threshold Delivery (Finishing Line Press, 2019); Perfecta (What Books Press, Glass Table Collective, 2014); Hilarity, (New Issues Press, 2009), Mechanical Cluster (Ohio State University Press, 2002) and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions, 1998). She earned a BS and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University, an MFA in Poetry from University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston. She is a professor at California State University, Long Beach, and was a 2024 Fulbright Scholar in Iasi, Romania.

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