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Joshua Beckman's poems of emotional curiosity invite the reader to a quiet, familiar space.
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[Stars
[I live
bark frost scene
the inside of an apple
Along the river
[Quit &
Silver streamers dazzling winter
[In the air
as russet apples
[I¿m not with my
[That being alive
[silvered out night
[flecks
(August 28)
[rain stones curved
[flowers from
[stations formed and made
The Plant
[Yeah, well
[strands of gold
[Being of lambkin mind
Waste & Use
[Being in ways
[confident
[clappers clapping
[moon
[reveling
of Oregon
[light sand
[shell plucked
[starlings
[flower puffs of dust
[junk plums
[Powder¿s
[Raise while you can
Daisies are calming
That¿s Not What I¿d Do
[On 13th street
[Early end of year
first snow
[on a twig
[Crackle crackle
porch light
Sitting on that chair a peg above my head
earth stars
Park hurt calls
How the mountain calmed me down
[Not gloss year candles
[Ocean which I pushed up
full of scarlet
God¿s cabin¿s a jungle
[Smiling granite
[Couldn¿t then see
[Not as in some
madrigal of trashbird
God¿s Wicker Basket Furnace
The Curtain
[living real things
[a bit of / combed hair
[tablets
[I saw hearts in Proust
[a hammer flattens
[Grey light shadow
[caution¿s loving
[falling terrors of
[hot in my frame
[Lofted cold falls
[Let my still dark soul
About the author
Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of nine books, including the forthcoming The Inside of an Apple (Wave Books, 2013), Take It, Shake, Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Micrograms, by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 5 Meters of Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.
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Joshua Beckman's poems of emotional curiosity invite the reader to a quiet, familiar space.
