The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems

by Bruce Beasley

Book Overview

The Corpse Flower brings works from Bruce Beasley's first four award-winning collections together with twenty-five new poems, organizing them around the metaphor that gives the book its title: an enormous tropical bloom that reeks like carrion, and around whose three-day florescence "dung beetles & flies & sweat bees swarm / . . . pollen gummed all over / their furred feet." The corpse flower serves as a figure for Beasley's coming to terms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295986395
• ISBN13: 9780295986395
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher