AmosL
05-19-2008, 05:45 PM
Bean, Jeffrey, editor. “The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems, 1969-2007”, Lethe Press, 2008.
30 Years of Queer Poetry
Amos Lassen
“The Beautiful Tendons” is a collection of award winning poems by Jeffrey Bean. 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. Bean’s poetry is of both the body and the soul.
Bean characterizes himself as “a Queer poet, child-like, saintly, sees the Kingdom of Heaven in every leaf, every fdop 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 Bean 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 Bean’s experience and spirituality that makes these poems such a gift.
30 Years of Queer Poetry
Amos Lassen
“The Beautiful Tendons” is a collection of award winning poems by Jeffrey Bean. 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. Bean’s poetry is of both the body and the soul.
Bean characterizes himself as “a Queer poet, child-like, saintly, sees the Kingdom of Heaven in every leaf, every fdop 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 Bean 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 Bean’s experience and spirituality that makes these poems such a gift.