{"title":"Bruce Beasley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBruce Beasley is the author of eight collections of poetry, including \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/poetry\/products\/all-soul-parts-returned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll Soul Parts Returned\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (BOA Editions, Fall 2017) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/poetry\/products\/theophobia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheophobia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (BOA Editions, 2012). He is the winner of the Colorado Prize in Poetry (selected by Charles Wright) for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer Mystagogia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1996), the Ohio State University Press\/Journal Award for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Creation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1994), and the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Award competition for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLord Brain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2005). He has won three Pushcart Prizes, and his work appears in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart Book of Poetry: The Best Poems from the First 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artist Trust of Washington. A native of Macon, Georgia, he lives in Bellingham, Washington, where he is a professor of English at Western Washington University. \u003c\/span\u003eFor more information about Bruce Beasley, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/brucebeasley.net\/\"\u003ebrucebeasley.net\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"theophobia","title":"Theophobia","description":"\u003cp\u003eBruce Beasley’s\u003ci\u003e Theophobia \u003c\/i\u003eis the latest volume in his ongoing spiritual meditation, which forms a kind of postmodern devotional poetry in a reinvention of the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot. The book is structured around a series of poems called \"Pilgrim’s Deviations\" and it forms a deviating pilgrimage through science, history, politics, and popular culture. Beasley interrogates the theological, metaphysical, scientific, and political worlds of our time in a continually disrupted catechism, a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003ecatechismus interruptus.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“All Saints”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe demystification\u003cbr\u003eunfurls. Arcana, manifestly\u003cbr\u003eoccult, are no more\u003cbr\u003eat our disposal.\u003cbr\u003eThe xenotransplantation\u003cbr\u003eof the vatic\u003cbr\u003einto vernacular\u003cbr\u003ehas been halted pending further\u003cbr\u003einvestigation. All’s\u003cbr\u003eserioburlesque \u0026amp; subcelestial.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eTheophobia\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eBeasley is, above all, a poet of spiritual ardor, a dyspeptic believer in the Geoffrey Hill mode ... Writing of Donne in a recent essay, Hill insists that for a certain breed of poet, style is faith, and Beasley may well be such a writer. His many allusions to the mystical esoteric – Meister Eckart, Julian of Norwich, the Gnostic gospels, and the Corpus Hermeticim (not to mention plain old Bible verse) – are evidence not merely of Beasley’s learnedness, but also of his belief in the poem as a kind of heterodox spiritual exercise. He is a postmodern descendant of Herbert, Traherne, and Vaughn … there are few contemporary poets who can keep such august company … Like Robert Duncan, who was also powerfully drawn to Gnostic and Hermetic thought, Beasley’s reading in mysticism has, above all, animated his lyrical acuity. He draws from these traditions not merely for their substance, but also to enhance his musical chops. And when he displays those chops, the results can be majestic … a fluency and rhetorical control that no other poet of his generation can match.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—David Wojahn, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eBruce Beasley is author of six poetry collections, most recently\u003cem\u003e The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e. His other collections have won awards such as the University of Georgia Press’ Contemporary Poetry Series Award, the 1996 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and the 1994 Ohio State University Press\/Journal Award. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, and three Pushcart Prizes. His work appears in The Pushcart Book of Poetry: The Best Poems from the First Thirty Years of the Pushcart Prize, as well as many other anthologies. His poems also appear widely in such journals as \u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSouthern Review, New American Writing, Field\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003ePublication Date: September 18, 2012\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-1-934414-91-0\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2012\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420223685,"sku":"9781934414910","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/theophobia_1.jpeg?v=1527683620"},{"product_id":"all-soul-parts-returned","title":"All Soul Parts Returned","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the Gnostic Gospels collide with new age spiritualism, the Oxford Happiness Test, and treatises on Buddhist practice, we know we’re in the territory of a Bruce Beasley collection. Known for his intense and continuing soul-quest through previous award-winning books, Beasley interrogates the absurdities and spiritual condition of twenty-first century America with despair, philosophic intelligence, and piercing humor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eExcerpt\u003cspan\u003e from “\u003c\/span\u003eI Don\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003et Like My Soul Parts\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou see there’s an Arthur Schopenhauer,\u003cbr\u003eoften, in my mind,\u003cbr\u003emuttering his strings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof cosmoscidal et ceteras.\u003cbr\u003eI write this twist\u003cbr\u003eof psalm to still\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehim instead of you,\u003cbr\u003eyou who are gone\u003cbr\u003eInto that unbeing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eyou so voluminously and erotically extolled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eAll Soul Parts Returned\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAll Soul Parts Returned\u003c\/i\u003e is a dynamic catechism-in-progress, laden with prayers, addresses, and meditations on God’s ‘pouring-apart of opposites.’ Bruce Beasley reminds us that to ‘come apart’ or ‘go missing’ is not necessarily to be lost, and his lyrics struggle movingly with limitation and loss, with familial bonds and inheritance, and with the way we can neither fully hide in nor emerge from our vocabularies. The prismatic language of these poems shimmers with a love of ‘the inchoation of words’: ‘Out of the ordinary something keeps\/busting loose…’ These poems gather, return, and enlarge it.” \u003cb\u003e—Mary Szybist, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Like Robert Duncan, who was also powerfully drawn to Gnostic and Hermetic thought, Beasley’s reading in mysticism has, above all, animated his lyrical acuity. He draws from these traditions not merely for their substance but also to enhance his musical chops. And when he displays those chops, the results can be majestic . . . a fluency and rhetorical control that no other poet of his generation can match.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There is a tidal force at work in these poems. They rush toward the reader with frenetic intensity, then slowly recede, leaving us drenched in language that is working at its highest level, language riding meaning the way foam crests a wave.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSigned copies available in limited quantities\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2017 \u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":33014377481,"sku":"9781942683452","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":12462814494801,"sku":"9781942683453","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/AllSoulPartsReturned_CVR.jpg?v=1527683164"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/BruceBeasley-Small.jpg?v=1511300493","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/bruce-beasley.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}