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    Theophobia
    Theophobia
    Theophobia
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    Theophobia

    By Bruce Beasley

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    • New collection by winner of the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Award; winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry; winner of the Ohio State University Press/Journal Award; three time Pushcart Prize winner; fellowships from the NEA and Artist Trust of Washington.
    • Foremost poet writing at the intersection of faith, science and poetry.
    • Poems from THEOPHOBIA have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Triquarterly, New American Writing, and numerous other prestigious journals.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBOA Editions Ltd.
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781934414927
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      Book preview

      Theophobia - Bruce Beasley

      THEOPHOBIA

      THEOPHOBIA

      Poems by

      BRUCE BEASLEY

      AMERICAN POETS CONTINUUM SERIES, NO. 136

      BOA EDITIONS, LTD.         ROCHESTER, NY         2012

      Copyright © 2012 by Bruce Beasley

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      First Edition

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      For information about permission to reuse any material from this book please contact The Permissions Company at www.permissionscompany.com or e-mail [email protected].

      Publications by BOA Editions, Ltd.—a not-for-profit corporation under section 501 (c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code—are made possible with funds from a variety of sources, including public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; the County of Monroe, NY; the Lannan Foundation for support of the Lannan Translations Selection Series; the Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust; the Rochester Area Community Foundation; the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester; the Steeple-Jack Fund; the Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust in memory of Henry Ames, Semon Amzalak and Dan Amzalak; and contributions from many individuals nationwide. See Colophon on page 108 for special individual acknowledgments.

      Cover Design: Sandy Knight

      Cover Art: Mark Rothko (1903-1970) © ARS, NY. Crucifix, 1941-42. Oil on canvas, 27 x 23 in.

      Interior Design and Composition: Richard Foerster

      Manufacturing: McNaughton & Gunn

      BOA Logo: Mirko

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Beasley, Bruce, 1958-

      Theophobia : poems / by Bruce Beasley. — 1st ed.

      p. cm. — (American Poets Continuum Series ; 136)

      for Suzanne and Jin.

      ISBN 978-1-934414-92-7

      I. Title.

      PS3552.E1748T47 2012

      811’.54—dc23

      2012014337

      BOA Editions, Ltd.

      250 North Goodman Street, Suite 306

      Rochester, NY 14607

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      A. Poulin, Jr., Founder (1938-1996)

      Contents

      ONE

      Pilgrim’s Deviations 1

      Having Read the Holy Spirit’s Wikipedia

      Year’s End Paradoxography

      TWO

      Pilgrim’s Deviations 2

      All Saints

      The Kingdom of God Is Not Usher’d In with Pomp and Exclamations

      Sunrise Insomnia Service

      Stray Apostrophes

      Reading the Not-Written

      THREE

      Pilgrim’s Deviations 3

      Valedictions

      Theme and Invariants

      The Scale by Which the Mapped Concerns the Map

      FOUR

      Pilgrim’s Deviations 4

      Genomic Vanitas:

      Vanitas

      Vocation

      Void Domiciles

      Mother Tongue

      Like Begets Unlike

      Nothing to Obstruct

      Memento Vivi

      Canticle of the Creatures

      Reading About Retrotransposons in Amish Country, in the Fall

      FIVE

      Pilgrim’s Deviations 5

      Self-Portrait in Ink

      Behold, I Am Against the Prophets, Saith the Lord, Who with Sweet Tongues Say, ‘The Lord Saith’

      The Parable of the Mustard Seed

      Dedication

      Like unto a Merchant Man Seeking Goodly Pearls

      As in a Dim Scriptorium

      Extremophilic Magnificat

      SIX

      Pilgrim’s Deviations 6

      Six Notes Toward the End

      To Revoke All Wills and Codicils Heretofore Made by Me

      Notes: As if the exegesis could ever cease

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Colophon

      for Suzanne and Jin

      my pearls of great price

      perfect love casteth out fear —First Epistle of John, 4:18

      One might ask why, if the universe is indeed a secret book of the gods with a coded message for us, this message is not written in ordinary language rather than in hieroglyphics whose decoding is discouragingly arduous and, above all, never results in certainty. But this question is futile, for two independent reasons. First, it assumes

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