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Informationen zum Autor Bruce Beasley is professor of English at Western Washington University in Bellingham. He is the author of five previous books including Spirituals and Signs and Abominations . Among his awards and honors are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Artist Trust, two Pushcart Prizes, the 1996 Colorado Prize (chosen by Charles Wright) for Summer Mystagogia, the Ohio State University Press / Journal Award for The Creation, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award from the University of Georgia Press for Lord Brain.On Summer Mystagogia Klappentext The Corpse Flower brings works from Bruce Beasley's first four award-winning collections together with twenty-five new poems, organizing them around the metaphor that gives the book its title: an enormous tropical bloom that reeks like carrion, and around whose three-day florescence "dung beetles & flies & sweat bees swarm / . . . pollen gummed all over / their furred feet." The corpse flower serves as a figure for Beasley's coming to terms with birth and death, fecundity and decay, the illusion of death, and the flourishing of the rare and beautiful out of the materials of the decayed. The Corpse Flower traces a spiritual pilgrimage, weaving autobiography into a larger meditation on the materials of language and of the life of the spirit. Beasley's is a deeply physical spirituality - as he writes in one poem, "the soul's / impossible to tell / from the objects of its appetite." Throughout these poems, family mythology, as well as religious and mythic narrative and iconography, become occasions for extraordinary meditations on the physicality of birth and death, beginnings and endings. This substantial selection of Bruce Beasley's work, written over a twenty year period, offers the opportunity to experience, page by page, a poet's evolution, and to follow a unique, creative mind as it reaches, through interrogations of faith, science, and art, toward some form of resolution - a resolution increasingly represented by the beauties of language itself. On Summer Mystagogia "These brilliant poems, often both mythic and demotic, powerfully initiate the reader into a world at once marred and yet suffused by the signs and wonders of an 'irresistible grace.' . . . A wonderfully resilient and hard-won poetry of witness." - Boston Review Zusammenfassung Traces 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis INITIALS from Spirituals (1988), The Creation (1994), and Summer Mystagogia Witness The Creation of Eve Eve, Learning to Speak Childhood Indian Summer Summer The Instrument and Proper Corps of the Soule At Easter The Reliquary Novice The Cursing of the Fig Tree Eurydice in Hades Sweet Repeaters Summer Mystagogia Primavera Ugly Ohio Idaho Compline Arcana Mundi Advent: Snow Incantation Doxology The Monologue of the Signified from A Mythic History of Alcoholism After an Adoration Sleeping in Santo Spirito A Dogwood Tree in a Country Graveyard, at Easter Ultrasound Before Thanksgiving Going Home to Georgia The Conceiving EXTREMITIES from Signs and Abominations What Did You Come to See Negatives of O'Connor and Serrano Hermetic Diary Hermetic Self-Portrait Mutating Villanelle Errata Mystagogia
