{"product_id":"verdant","title":"Verdant","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eVerdant\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJeffery Beam\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780998929347\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKin Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eReminiscent of Eastern Bhakti love poetry, and Western Troubadour and Green Man traditions, \u003cem\u003eVerdant\u003c\/em\u003e recounts a mid-life passage within a shadowed natural landscape of intense physical and spiritual longing. At the age of 42, queer poet Jeffery Beam fell in love with a younger man, threatening his then 15-year relationship. These poems were born of that spiritual alchemical blaze, and its substantial healing power. The poet-lover's sacred quest through heartbreak, suffering, grief, and regret, progresses ultimately to a joyful ecstatic reunion with the Beloved Divine. A mini-essay, \"Don't Forget Love: Sacred Longing's Dark Project,\" further illuminates the actual, mythological, and spiritual origins of the poems, and describes the poet's lifetime search through experience, teachings, and literature, to a condition in which Desire and Love enrich instead of subsume the Self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Kin Press","offers":[{"title":"Verdant | Jeffery Beam | Paperback | 9780998929347 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1671607","offer_id":48711467368600,"sku":"1671607","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/611Gt-QSCrL.jpg?v=1773785463","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/verdant","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}