{"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","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/theophobia","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}