The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems 1969-2007

By Jeffery Beam

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590210409
• ISBN13: 9781590210406
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: White Crane Books
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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30 Years of Poetry

Beam, Jeffery, editor. "The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems, 1969-2007", Lethe Press, 2008. 30 Years of Poetry Amos Lassen "The Beautiful Tendons" is a collection of award winning poems by Jeffery Beam. The poems are lyrical and metaphysical as well as sensual and dramatic and they memory pieces. There is melancholia and love in the poetry and they are both tender and erotic brimming with sensuousness. Beam's poetry is of both the body and the soul. Beam characterizes himself as "a Queer poet, child-like, saintly, sees the Kingdom of Heaven in every leaf, every drop of blood spilled, every meal, every automobile, every homeless person's cardboard box, every bright mansion, and every bird song. The Queer-spirit sees All-in-All in every act of love. With a self-description like this, it is easy to see how Beam could write so beautifully. Here is a collection of poems that is accomplished and graceful as they speak of desire, contemplation and passion. It is Beam's experience and spirituality that makes these poems such a gift.