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Bruce Beasley is the author of eight collections of poetry, including All Soul Parts Returned (BOA Editions, Fall 2017) and Theophobia (BOA Editions, 2012). He is the winner of the Colorado Prize in Poetry (selected by Charles Wright) for Summer Mystagogia (1996), the Ohio State University Press/Journal Award for The Creation (1994), and the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Award competition for Lord Brain (2005). He has won three Pushcart Prizes, and his work appears in The Pushcart Book of Poetry: The Best Poems from the First 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artist Trust of Washington. A native of Macon, Georgia, he lives in Bellingham, Washington, where he is a professor of English at Western Washington University. For more information about Bruce Beasley, visit brucebeasley.net.

Books by Bruce Beasley

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Albert Goldbarth

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This Elegance

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To Sound Like Yourself

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