Reminiscent of Eastern Bhakti love poetry, and Western Troubadour and Green Man traditions, Verdant recounts a mid-life passage within a shadowed natural landscape of intense physical and spiritual longing. At the age of 42, queer poet Jeffery Beam fell in love with a younger man, threatening his then 15-year relationship. These poems were born of that spiritual alchemical blaze, and its substantial healing power. The poet-lover's sacred quest through heartbreak, suffering, grief, and regret, progresses ultimately to a joyful ecstatic reunion with the Beloved Divine. A mini-essay, "Don't Forget Love: Sacred Longing's Dark Project," further illuminates the actual, mythological, and spiritual origins of the poems, and describes the poet's lifetime search through experience, teachings, and literature, to a condition in which Desire and Love enrich instead of subsume the Self.
| Autorius: | Jeffery Beam |
| Leidėjas: | Kin Press |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2022 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 64 |
| ISBN-10: | 0998929344 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780998929347 |
| Formatas: | 229 x 152 x 5 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
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