Beschreibung:
In this rich continuation of Beasley's soul-quest, Gnostic Gospels collide with shaman belief, Buddhist treatises, Schopenhauer's philosophical nihilism, and fatherhood.
The PartsTorn-to-Pieces-HoodPart I Thou Must LeaveReport to the Provost on the Progress of My Leave 1Me Meaneth 4Reading Jesus Again, with a New Prescription 9Part II Disorientation PsalmTohu Bohu 13Looking Down the Cliff, with Schopenhauer, on Black Friday 16 The Last Good 19"I Don't Like My Soul Parts" 21Reading The Purpose Driven Life, with Schopenhauer 22Part III HymenealNuptial Song 26On Marriage 29Antithalamion 30What Do You Think the Poet Is Trying to Say? 33The Name of the Island Was Marriage 35Offspring Insprung 39Part IV The Sixth Dust Revised Catechism 43Cleft for Me Let Me Hide Myself from Thee 45Such and Such and Such and Such 47Part V The Mass of the Ordinary Kyrie 51Embolism 54Sanctus 57Credo 58Fraction Rite 60Agnus Dei 63Benedictus 65Gloria 68 NONORDINARY TO THE POEMS 70