All Soul Parts Returned

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.

• The PartsTorn-to-Pieces-HoodPart IThou Must LeaveReport to the Provost on the Progress of My Leave 1Me Meaneth 4Reading Jesus Again, with a New Prescription 9Part II Disorientation PsalmTohu Bohu13Looking Down the Cliff, with Schopenhauer, on Black Friday16The Last Good19“I Don’t Like My Soul Parts”21Reading The Purpose Driven Life, with Schopenhauer22Part IIIHymenealNuptial Song26On Marriage29Antithalamion30What Do You Think the Poet Is Trying to Say?33The Name of the Island Was Marriage35Offspring Insprung39Part IV The Sixth DustRevised Catechism43Cleft for Me Let Me Hide Myself from Thee45Such and Such and Such and Such47Part V The Mass of the OrdinaryKyrie51Embolism54Sanctus57Credo58Fraction Rite60Agnus Dei63Benedictus65Gloria68NONORDINARY TO THE POEMS70