The Broken Flower: Poems
Skysill Press, 2012
Jeffery Beam's The Broken Flower shows him once more to be a master of the precise word. Language cascades down the page with a grace and sense of inevitability that only the true poet can accomplish. Whether focused on a painting or a friend, Beam brings into language a dazzling clarity. He sees the world the way it is.
―Poet, Editor and Publisher Ed Foster
The New Beautiful Tendons: Collected Queer Poems 1969-2012
Spuyten Duyvil Books, 2012
Spuyten Duyvil Books, 2012
These juicy poems, at the intersection of spirituality and sexuality, leave me breathless with their erotic thrust.
―Poet Edward Field
MountSeaEden
Chester Creek Press (art books), 2012
Chester Creek Press (art books), 2012
Wonderful gray―green black and white poems. As lush as an ocean, as spare as a peak.
―Poet Thomas Meyer
Midwinter Fires
Seven Kitchens Press, 2011
Seven Kitchens Press, 2011
Midwinter Fires is Beam at his most minimal and acute, summoning up angels, linking the realms of the heavens, the earthly seasons, and the passions in an intricate and celebratory music that assures us in our dark seasons. We observe a poet of plenitude and abundance confront the supreme season of abnegation and withdrawal. In these pages Jeffery Beam turns negation against itself, ritualizing the world around him, drawing forth, from the lowest moment of the earth’s light, desire and song.
― Poet Joseph Donahue
