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Synopsis
The Beautiful Tendons is a collection of more than three decades of award-winning poet Jeffrey Beam's lyrical, metaphysical work. Both spiritual and stirring, Beam's poetry was described by the late James Broughton as "sensual ephiphanies, lightning flashes of the dramatic heart of event, memories from the crux of dream." These are subtle works that can be sung to the soul or to your fellow man.
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About the Author
Jeffery Beam is the author of ten works of poetry including The Fountain, Visions of Dame Kind, the IPPY Ten Best Books and AIGA Fifty Best Books award-winning, An Elizabethan Bestiary: Retold, and the Audio Publishers Association Audie Award in Poetry finalist CD collection, What We Have Lost: New & Selected Poems 1977-2001. Beam's work has appeared in numerous magazines and he has been a frequent reviewer for Lambda Book Report and other literary reviews. Recipient of a Mary Duke Biddle Foundation grant, Beam also performed his work at Carnegie Hall in 2002. He is a botanical librarian at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and poetry editor of the print and online literary journal Oyster Boy Review.
Review
An unrelenting intelligence drives Beam's poems toward an agenda that's mystical, sexual and pantheist. He is one of the wild children of Whitman, whom he quotes frequently. Like Whitman, he celebrates those moments when sexual between men is recognized, signaled, and secured. Passionate and wistful, these are poems about the spirit of love and the mysteries of affection, not of sexual consummation. --Jim Cory, The Gay & Lesbian Review
Beam has been writing for almost four decades; and any literary gay man who is unaware of Beam or his poems ought to be ashamed of himself! --Jesse Monteagudo for AfterElton.com
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- PublisherWhite Crane Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1590210409
- ISBN 13 9781590210406
- BindingPerfect Paperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages132
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THE BEAUTIFUL TENDONS: Uncollected Queer Poems 1969 - 2007 (signed) White Crane Wisdom Series
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ISBN 10: 1590210409
ISBN 13: 9781590210406
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Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition, 2008. Near Fine. SIGNED by Author on half title page. 8vo., 143 pp., with black & white illustrations. Bound in publishers stiff, glossy illustrated wraps. Very slight wear to upper corner of front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 25335
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