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"Man is a suffering delicate," proclaims Eric Beeny in Of Creatures, a poetry collection that circles the mind with a tentative, ticking confidence-a nervous bouquet waiting to burst. The petals distend, pregnant with brilliant color, radiating the naked shyness kicking within. Brace yourself for the birth, for Beeny's words surge forth, methodically, to wrestle the lure of contentment before snaking it into a headlock and then whisper kissing its ears. Just as quickly the dance recedes and the coupling severs, the face of one carried in the reflection of the other, an often bittersweet reverie raining down from a cloud or, perhaps, the moon.

-MEL BOSWORTH, author of Grease Stains, Kismet...

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"Man is a suffering delicate," proclaims Eric Beeny in Of Creatures, a poetry collection that circles the mind with a tentative, ticking confidence-a nervous bouquet waiting to burst. The petals distend, pregnant with brilliant color, radiating the naked shyness kicking within. Brace yourself for the birth, for Beeny's words surge forth, methodically, to wrestle the lure of contentment before snaking it into a headlock and then whisper kissing its ears. Just as quickly the dance recedes and the coupling severs, the face of one carried in the reflection of the other, an often bittersweet reverie raining down from a cloud or, perhaps, the moon.

-MEL BOSWORTH, author of Grease Stains, Kismet and Maternal Wisdom

Of Creatures is a delicate life-form. Its lines are inventive and brave; its stanzas surprising and strong. These poems are weighted by sadness, yet hope offers them wings.

-MOLLY GAUDRY, author of We Take Me Apart

Of Creatures is the propulsion of a heart in the chest of a child, mountainous underneath cold fall air that seeps through windows and into our beds. The disjointed phrases are our jaws unhinged from this body of wanderlust, from the whole of this poetic blood and moon, the tender savagery that Eric Beeny has us steeping in, wet with these delicately-natured fists.

-J. A. TYLER, author of Inconceivable Wilson and A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780982630938
  • Publisher: Gold Wake Press
  • Publication date: 1/1/2011
  • Pages: 70
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.17 (d)

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  • Posted December 29, 2010

    let go and breathe

    I typically read narrative poetry, so poetry that experiments with word order is not usually my cup of tea. But I have to say that Eric Beeny has done a marvelous job letting me in to this collection of poems. The keys for me were:
    "A Moon I Found and So Romantic" (from Part 1)
    "A Circumstance to Think This Was Enough" (from Part 2)
    "In the Dark Because the Water Proves" (from Part 3)
    After reading them, I went back to re-read all the poems in their respective sections. Surprisingly (to me) I was no longer skimming along the top of the words, but diving down into them and exploring their meaning. In them I found a sense of searching for air, of an attempt to collect and record all the elements the speaker needs to survive life on this earth. I'm glad I was able to let go enough to breathe his words, because I would not have wanted to miss the imagery and word play OF CREATURES has to offer.

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