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"It's no small feat to compose a lifetime in just 24 pages of poetry, but Jeffrey Bean has done this, and brilliantly. His poems begin with an adored 'you, ' and they make one long to be this beloved person, the language is so luscious and exquisitely tuned (. . . her hair, shook foil). He flits back in time too, revisiting a sensuous childhood where " the graffiti I carved into the grass / has vanished, but the grass insists / on whispering about it." Finally, a newborn appears, "chubby fire, flaring / all night into the eye of / the video monitor." Bean offers startling takes on familiar objects and experiences. A retainer is a "disembodied organ, pink as sex." There's a singing beer can, dancing cellophane, the failed garden brought to life in a closet filled with beautiful red shirts, "that grass-and-river feeling." And always, always, the most lovely, subtle music, for the poet knows not to blare, but to weave sound in, as if it were floating down from an upstairs window." Sarah Gorham, poet & editor-in-chief of Sarabande Books
About the Author: Jeffrey Bean was raised in Bloomington, Indiana. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Guitar Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from the University of Alabama. From 2006-2008, he served as the Axton Fellow in Poetry at the University of Louisville. Currently, he lives with his wife Jessica and daughter Olivia in Mount Pleasant, MI, where he is Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at Central Michigan University. His first full length collection, Diminished Fifth, was published by David Robert Books in 2009, and his chapbook, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, won the 2013 Vern Cowles/Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Southeast Missouri State University Press in 2014. His poems have been featured on the NPR program The Writer's Almanac and in Garrison Keillor's anthology Good Poems, American Places. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in the journals FIELD, Slate.com, Southern Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Subtropics, Smartish Pace, and River Styx, among others.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780988310391
  • Publisher: Southeast Missouri State Univ Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Missouri State Univ Press
  • Height: 211 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0988310392
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 141 gr


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