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Curious Conduct[/color]
Jeanne Marie Beaumont[/b]
Sample poem:
Bonnard
Surely paradise has
a table by a window
that looks out
on a garden
dark apple
in the compote
a dog
happy in shadow
happy in red and gold
mosaic of air
not the way we see
objects
but the way we
know them to be there
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Reviews for Curious Conduct:
"Curious Conduct is one of the livelier books to come down
the poetry pike. Jeanne Marie Beaumont keeps readers on
their toes with her fondness for inversions and sly
perversions. ..The poems glance backward like Lot's
indomitable wife into the receding vistas of history while
at the same time shade their eyes in order to scan the
future's uncertain horizon." --- Amy Gerstler
"Here is one great blessed eyeball (with more facets than a
dragonfly's) encountering the world, no, colliding with it
in endless cancellations, where to see, to think, and to
imagine combine in one impulse to make a poetry of
poetries." --Mary Ruefle
About the author:
Jeanne Marie Beaumont earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University. Her first book, Placebo Effects, was selected by William Matthews as a winner of the 1997 National Poetry Series and was published by W.W. Norton. With Claudia Carlson, she co-edited the anthology The Poets' Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line). For seven years she was publisher and co-editor of the literary magazine American Letters & Commentary. She has also worked as a proofreader, a medical editor, and an advertising copywriter. She has taught at the Frost Place and Rutgers University and currently teaches at The Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York.
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