{"id":105,"date":"2008-12-19T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T22:31:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:50:57","slug":"the_beautiful_tendons_uncollected_queer__2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/the_beautiful_tendons_uncollected_queer__2007\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems, 1969-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beam, Jeffery. <em>The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems, 1969-2007.<\/em> Brooklyn, NY: White Crane Books, 2008. 131p. Paperback. ISBN: 9781590210406. $14.95<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This collection of poems, unpublished in book form until now, covers roughly a thirty year period, and is an excellent opportunity for readers who may not be familiar with Jeffery Beam&#8217;s poetry to become acquainted with his style.<\/p>\n<p>The back cover of the book sums up this reader&#8217;s experience of the poems as &#8220;lyrical, metaphysical poetry,&#8221; a conversation between our physical world and our spiritual being. While Beam&#8217;s male lovers serve, in large part, as the subject matter for his poems, their erotic passion and the sense of solitude that comes from the loss of a lover are universal emotions to which all readers can relate.<\/p>\n<p>A man of many creative talents, Jeffery Beam&#8217;s publications include nine books, numerous articles, three audio publications, and one lyrical opera. He has also served as the poetry editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oysterboyreview.com\/\">Oyster Boy Review.<\/a> Beam is a library assistant to the Biology Librarian in the Botany Library on the North Carolina University\u2013Chapel Hill campus.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>The Beautiful Tendons <\/em> does contain images that some patrons might find offensive or inappropriate, it is recommended for libraries that have a GLBT or modern poetry collection.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by <strong>TJ Lusher<\/strong><br \/>\nAssistant Dean<br \/>\nAutomated Library Systems<br \/>\nNorthern Illinois University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beam, Jeffery. The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems, 1969-2007. Brooklyn, NY: White Crane Books, 2008. 131p. Paperback. ISBN: 9781590210406. $14.95 This collection of poems, unpublished in book form until now, covers roughly a thirty year period, and is an excellent opportunity for readers who may not be familiar with Jeffery Beam&#8217;s poetry to become acquainted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}