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In this rich continuation of Beasley's soul-quest, Gnostic Gospels collide with shaman belief, Buddhist treatises, Schopenhauer's philosophical nihilism, and fatherhood.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l'auteur
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.
Résumé
In this rich continuation of Beasley's soul-quest, Gnostic Gospels collide with shaman belief, Buddhist treatises, Schopenhauer's philosophical nihilism, and fatherhood.
