When the Gnostic Gospels collide with new age spiritualism, the Oxford
Happiness Test, and treatises on Buddhist practice, we know we're in the
territory of a Bruce Beasley collection. Alternately devout and
heretical, Beasley--known for his intense and continuing soul-quest
through previous award-winning books--interrogates the absurdities,
psychic violence, and spiritual condition of twenty-first century
America with despair, philosophic intelligence, and piercing humor.
Bruce Beasley is the author of eight collections of poetry,
including Theophobia (BOA, 2012). The winner of numerous literary
awards and fellowships, he lives in Bellingham, WA, where he is a
professor of English at Western Washington University.