Overview

When 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. Alternately devout and heretical, Beasley-known for his intense and continuing soul-quest through previous award-winning books-interrogates the absurdities, psychic violence, and spiritual condition of twenty-first century America with despair, philosophic intelligence, and piercing humor. Bruce Beasley is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Theophobia (BOA, 2012). The winner of numerous literary awards and fellowships, he lives in Bellingham, WA, where he is a professor of English at Western Washington University.

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Author:   Bruce Beasley
Publisher:   BOA Editions, Limited
Imprint:   BOA Editions, Limited
ISBN:  

9781942683452

ISBN 10:   1942683456
Pages:   104
Publication Date:   26 October 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Parts Torn-to-Pieces-Hood Part I Thou Must Leave Report to the Provost on the Progress of My Leave 1 Me Meaneth 4 Reading Jesus Again, with a New Prescription 9 Part II Disorientation Psalm Tohu Bohu 13 Looking Down the Cliff, with Schopenhauer, on Black Friday 16 The Last Good 19 I Don't Like My Soul Parts 21 Reading The Purpose Driven Life, with Schopenhauer 22 Part III Hymeneal Nuptial Song 26 On Marriage 29 Antithalamion 30 What Do You Think the Poet Is Trying to Say? 33 The Name of the Island Was Marriage 35 Offspring Insprung 39 Part IV The Sixth Dust Revised Catechism 43 Cleft for Me Let Me Hide Myself from Thee 45 Such and Such and Such and Such 47 Part V The Mass of the Ordinary Kyrie 51 Embolism 54 Sanctus 57 Credo 58 Fraction Rite 60 Agnus Dei 63 Benedictus 65 Gloria 68 NONORDINARY TO THE POEMS 70

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""All Soul Parts Returned 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."" --Mary Szybist, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry

Author Information

Bruce Beasley is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, including Theophobia (BOA, 2012). He is the winner of the Colorado Prize in Poetry (selected by Charles Wright) for Summer Mystagogia (1996), the Ohio State University Press/Journal Award for The Creation (1994), and the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Award competition for Lord Brain (2005). He has won three Pushcart Prizes, and his work appears in The Pushcart Book of Poetry: The Best Poems from the First 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize. 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.

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