The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems TC_Bestseller A sweeping novel of remarkable

A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth

She also learned that one job is not enough

the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission

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The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems TC_Bestseller A sweeping novel of remarkableThe Corpse Flower brings works from Bruce Beasley's first four award winning collections together with twenty five new poems, organizing them around the metaphor that gives the book its title: an enormous tropical bloom that reeks like carrion, and around whose three day florescence "dung beetles & flies & sweat bees swarm . . . pollen gummed all over their furred feet." The corpse flower serves as a figure for Beasley's coming to terms with birth and