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The Flagrant Dead
Poems
Stephen Bluestone
Praise for The Flagrant Dead
Poetry that seeks the undying connection between past and present
In prize-winning poetry that explores the timelessness of everyday life, Stephen Bluestone’s The Flagrant Dead examines the spiritual connections between past and present. The lived moment endures. The agony of Jesus in the garden, the fantastic stage performances of Harry Houdini, the surreal comedy of Harpo Marx, and the loving artistry of the last of the traditional village rug makers all continue to happen. As late-summer shadows fall, Jackie Robinson still dances off first base, changing us forever.
The past is permanent and universal. The same light recorded nearly two centuries ago in the earliest photographic erotica still enters our eyes today. Jonah’s attempt to escape from God still mirrors our flight from ourselves. The automobile may change time and space, but it has not changed us. The computer may affect how we use information, but it has not transformed our hearts. As Walt Whitman in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” traveled from the past to the future, so in “The Crossing,” a central poem of this volume, do we continue that journey.
The poems in The Flagrant Dead connect the individual with mankind. Sadness and joy are endless. The psalms, however mysteriously they came to David, remain miracles. The singing continues.
STEPHEN BLUESTONE was born in New York City. His previous volume, The Laughing Monkeys of Gravity, was nominated for the National Book Award in Poetry. He has won the Greensboro Review Poetry Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize. He teaches English and film in the College of Liberal Arts at Mercer University.
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