{"title":"Jeanne Marie Beaumont","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeanne Marie Beaumont is the author of three books of poetry including two from BOA, \u003cem\u003eCurious Conduct\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2004); and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBurning of the Three Fires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2010)\u003c\/span\u003e: Her first collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003ePlacebo Effects\u003c\/em\u003e (W.W. Norton, 1997), was selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series. For seven years she was publisher and co-editor of the literary magazine \u003cem\u003eAmerican Letters \u0026amp; Commentary\u003c\/em\u003e. She has also worked as a proofreader, medical editor, and advertising copywriter. Beaumont currently teaches at The Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e Street Y in Manhattan and in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. For more information about Jeanne Marie Beaumont, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jeannemariebeaumont.com\" title=\"Visit Jeanne Marie Beaumont's homepage\"\u003ewww.jeannemariebeaumont.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"curious-conduct","title":"Curious Conduct","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurious are the workings of history and governments, the relations between the sexes, the behavior of animals, the life of objects, the labors of art, and the transformations of the imagination. In exploring these subjects, Jeanne Marie Beaumont's poems pursue and develop their own mode of investigation, a way into their subjects whether it be by interrogation, time travel, anthropomorphism or other conducive strategies.  Employing a range of poetic forms and devices including anaphora, acrostic, dramatic monologue, and the prose poem, Jeanne Marie Beaumont's \u003cem\u003eCurious Conduct\u003c\/em\u003e depicts a restless aesthetic alert to the various opportunities that the poetic tradition present to explore experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistory's Memory\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDevil pulled the string end. \u003cbr\u003eOars break the clouded waters. \u003cbr\u003eObjects retrieved by shape and scent. \u003cbr\u003eMarch step of the unknown soldiers. \u003cbr\u003eElevation for gathering a \"big picture.\" \u003cbr\u003eDitches to bury your troubles in. \u003cbr\u003eTangled webs of the oft-deceivers. \u003cbr\u003eOrifice hiding the weepers' den. \u003cbr\u003eRags for recycling into uniforms. \u003cbr\u003eElephant foot-trails toward extinction. \u003cbr\u003ePearls of unrequited wisdom. \u003cbr\u003eEmpires—see under: follies, broad thumbs. \u003cbr\u003eAttacks on itself from grizzled pundits. \u003cbr\u003eTempests dizzying the inverted kingdoms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418284869,"sku":"1929918518","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/CURIOUSCONDUCT.jpg?v=1784749030"},{"product_id":"burning-of-the-three-fires","title":"Burning of the Three Fires","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBurning of the Three Fires\u003c\/em\u003e shows Jeanne Marie Beaumont using her characteristic variety of techniques: dramatic monologues, lists, prose poems, nonce forms, object poems, and ekphrasis, to which she has added an exploration of biography, elegy, and rites. Among its layered themes, this book takes a multifaceted look at womanhood: there are dolls, historic and modern girlhoods, mythic re-tellings of characters from \u003cem\u003eGoldilocks\u003c\/em\u003e to the \u003cem\u003eBride of Frankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e, emotionally charged domestic trinkets, and even a conversation with Sylvia Plath conducted via an 8-Ball.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBurning of the Three Fires\u003c\/em\u003e is the third collection by the National Poetry Series award-winning author of \u003cem\u003ePlacebo Effects\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCurious Conduct\u003c\/em\u003e. Several of the poems in this collection have been recognized by anthologists and appeared in such volumes as \u003cem\u003eThe Year’s Best Fantasy\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e Horr\u003cem\u003eor, When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDon’t Leave Hungry: 50 Years of Southern Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\"\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eBURNING OF THE THREE FIRES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\"\u003e\"Something charming, something sacred, and something wickedly fun collide and collaborate in Jeanne Marie Beaumont’s book. In poetry that is both art and performance, 'no circumstance is ordinary': \u003ccity w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cplace w:st=\"on\"\u003eBeaumont\u003c\/place\u003e\u003c\/city\u003e disrobes words to reveal their true skins—embarrassing stretch marks and all, she reconfigures phrases to construct surprising new angles from familiar lines, and, medium-like, she invites the spirits of other poets to the inventive dance between writer and muse. Enter \u003cem\u003eBurning of the Three Fires\u003c\/em\u003e and keep a close watch for the magic that is neither trick nor gimmick but pure, 'otherwordly' mystery.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Rigoberto González\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2010\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420081477,"sku":"9781934414408","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/BURNING_OF_THE_THREE_FIRES.jpg?v=1527683193"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/13.1289844053.jpeg?v=1449014716","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/jeanne-marie-beaumont.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}