{"product_id":"the-corpse-flower-9780295986388","title":"The Corpse Flower","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraces a spiritual pilgrimage, weaving autobiography into a larger meditation on the materials of language and of the life of the spirit. This title offers the opportunity to experience a poet's evolution and to follow a creative mind as it reaches, through interrogations of faith, science, and art, toward some form of resolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bruce Beasley is not quite like anyone else, and his progress has been dazzling to follow, one of the most satisfying growths into a major poetic presence . . . I have witnessed. . . . [His] ability to transubstantiate pain and loss into spiritual wonder is not to be missed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Field *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bruce Beasley has crafted a piece of supreme symmetry. . . . \u003ci\u003eSigns and Abominations\u003c\/i\u003e is the present and future of poetic, theoretical thought; it is indeed the best road map yet for divining the mysterious relationship between the human and ethereal energies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Contemporary Poetry Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Surprisingly moving and personal. . . . nuanced, playful, almost brutally frank, the early poems establish Beasley as a poet to be watched, and now the reader watches as they move-surely, inexorably-toward their metamorphosis. . . . A quick dip into the content reveals something else: an energy so compressed it is ready to spring forth, transforming itself in the process. Story and song and query and lung breathe at the core of these poems; they are exhaled— physically— as the (nearly) visible product of a mind ceaselessly roaming at the corridors of meaning, restlessly pacing the halls of experience, hacking away at convention and correlation, fiercely flying in the face of tradition. And to what end? To make, as he has, an amalgam of flesh and spirit, profanity and profundity, of such equal parts that it is impossible to distinguish the ordinary from the astonishing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Georgia Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Startling, original . . . the monstrous and the divine flee from and chase one another throughout this fugal, challenging new book by one of our most stylistically and thematically intrepid young poets.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Virginia Quarterly Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In poem after poem in this book . . . the effect is stunning. [This] is an important first book by an extremely talented young poet, a gift to us all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Quarterly West *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpirituals\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of apprenticeship in which one can see the potential for genius in the retelling of the old stories.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Mark Jarman * Hudson Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bruce Beasley is a refreshingly physical poet. . . . [He] has a good ear, essential to a poet, and sometimes his music is superb, almost as good as Yeats. . . . Beasley transforms longing into the ground of faith itself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kathleen Norris * Books and Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eINITIALS\u003cbr\u003e from Spirituals (1988), The Creation (1994), and Summer Mystagogia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWitness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Creation of Eve\u003cbr\u003e Eve, Learning to Speak\u003cbr\u003e Childhood\u003cbr\u003e Indian Summer\u003cbr\u003e Summer\u003cbr\u003e The Instrument and Proper Corps of the Soule\u003cbr\u003e At Easter\u003cbr\u003e The Reliquary\u003cbr\u003e Novice\u003cbr\u003e The Cursing of the Fig Tree\u003cbr\u003e Eurydice in Hades\u003cbr\u003e Sweet Repeaters\u003cbr\u003e Summer Mystagogia\u003cbr\u003e Primavera\u003cbr\u003e Ugly Ohio\u003cbr\u003e Idaho Compline\u003cbr\u003e Arcana Mundi\u003cbr\u003e Advent: Snow Incantation\u003cbr\u003e Doxology\u003cbr\u003e The Monologue of the Signified\u003cbr\u003e from A Mythic History of Alcoholism\u003cbr\u003e After an Adoration\u003cbr\u003e Sleeping in Santo Spirito\u003cbr\u003e A Dogwood Tree in a Country Graveyard, at Easter\u003cbr\u003e Ultrasound\u003cbr\u003e Before Thanksgiving\u003cbr\u003e Going Home to Georgia\u003cbr\u003e The Conceiving\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEXTREMITIES\u003cbr\u003e from Signs and Abominations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Did You Come to See\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNegatives of O'Connor and Serrano\u003cbr\u003e Hermetic Diary\u003cbr\u003e Hermetic Self-Portrait\u003cbr\u003e Mutating Villanelle\u003cbr\u003e Errata Mystagogia\u003cbr\u003e from Spiritual Alphabet in Midsummer\u003cbr\u003e from The Mosntrum Fugue\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMORTOGENESES\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Corpse Flower\u003c\/i\u003e: New Poems (2006)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Corpse Flower\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs\u003cbr\u003e Not Light nor Life nor Love nor Nature nor Spirit nor Seblance\u003cbr\u003e nor Anthing We Can Put into Words\u003cbr\u003e And Go into the Street Which Is Called Straight\u003cbr\u003e The Craps Hymnal\u003cbr\u003e Lord's Prayer\u003cbr\u003e Rotbox\u003cbr\u003e Mortogenesis\u003cbr\u003e The Vanishing Point\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e About the Poet\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524696449367,"sku":"9780295986388","price":91.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295986388.jpg?v=1731857789","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-corpse-flower-9780295986388","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}