
All Soul Parts Returned
Bruce Beasley(Author)
BOA Editions, Limited (Publisher)
Published on 26. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-1-942683-45-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this new collection, Gnostic gospels collide with the Oxford Happiness Test and Buddhist treatises on emptiness; Beasley talks extensively about his son; and both Schopenhauer's philosophical nihilism and The Purpose Driven Life are brought to bear on the horrors of the Sandy Hook massacre.
At once fascinating, disturbing, and humorous, this collection begins with a "shamanic healing" pamphlet offering insights into reuniting one's "soul parts" following "soul retrieval" and leaves no spiritual stone unturned delving into those rich concepts. Beasley ultimately uses strong Catholic ideology and philosophy to richly investigate, question, and challenge these ideas.
This collection continues Beasley's postmodern spiritual meditations in the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, and T.S. Eliot. He is known as a foremost poet writing at the intersection of faith, science and poetry.
Beasley is the recipient of the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Award; the Colorado Prize for Poetry; the Ohio State University Press/Journal Award; three Pushcart Prizes; and fellowships from the NEA and the Artist Trust of Washington.
Beasley's previous BOA book, Theophobia was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, a "Top Ten Best Books of 2012" by Image Journal, a "Notable Book of 2014" by Poetry Northwest.
At once fascinating, disturbing, and humorous, this collection begins with a "shamanic healing" pamphlet offering insights into reuniting one's "soul parts" following "soul retrieval" and leaves no spiritual stone unturned delving into those rich concepts. Beasley ultimately uses strong Catholic ideology and philosophy to richly investigate, question, and challenge these ideas.
This collection continues Beasley's postmodern spiritual meditations in the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, and T.S. Eliot. He is known as a foremost poet writing at the intersection of faith, science and poetry.
Beasley is the recipient of the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Award; the Colorado Prize for Poetry; the Ohio State University Press/Journal Award; three Pushcart Prizes; and fellowships from the NEA and the Artist Trust of Washington.
Beasley's previous BOA book, Theophobia was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, a "Top Ten Best Books of 2012" by Image Journal, a "Notable Book of 2014" by Poetry Northwest.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Offspring by Bruce Beasley
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-942683-45-2 (9781942683452)
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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.
Content
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
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