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 / .
Traces a spiritual pilgrimage, weaving autobiography into a larger meditation on the materials of language and of the life of the spirit. This title offers the opportunity to experience a poet's evolution and to follow a creative mind as it reaches, through interrogations of faith, science, and art, toward some form of resolution.
