Signs & Abominations

"Despite the freedom in his fourth book--plentiful sectioning of poems; spatial liberalism (experimentation with enjambment, spacing, indentation); lofty language; the use of up-to-the-second names and places--Bruce Beasley has written a piece of supreme symmetry, has crafted an architecture so streamlined as to be the subject of a Charles Sheeler gelatin print....He has, in effect, created his own mystagogia, the very word he used to name his third book--a word he uses in the epigraph of its title poem to mean "the period immediately following the initiation into a mystery." This is not a book of heresy, not the easy rumination-in-the-mirror on some "tattered soul"--SIGNS AND ABOMINATIONS 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."Beasley, Bruce is the author of 'Signs & Abominations' with ISBN 9780819564566 and ISBN 0819564567.