Shouldering Zero, Poems by S. Beth Bishop
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Beth Bishop is a faithful geographer of the heart and mind, mapping out
new paths to understanding across a wide range of themes and subjects.
Always this poet's distinctive voice strives to find deeper truths beneath
surface beauty: "We have to guess where/never waits, and whether there
is any always left after our light/gestures burn away like dew."
Sample Poems by S. Beth Bishop
"I swear this new voice should be under lock and key. She is revealing to us the secret life of the lost Puritan--the 'starving creature eating its own hands.'" --Tom Russell, author of Riding with the Magi
"There are three languages with which the writer hopes to be familiar: that of assimilation in the outer world of necessities, that of the innermost world of meaningful incoherences, and that tertium quid, a third possibility, which strives for overwhelming allusion, intuition, revelation, and realization, rather than any kind of finality. Each writer teaches us, I mean, another way to read. The only obligation of the poem, in this light, is to be true to the talent of its maker and creative also to the talent of the reader. Beth has achieved these." --Gordon Osing, author of The Water Radical and Things That Never Happened
A native of East Tennessee, S. Beth Bishop received her BA in English at Maryville College. She currently teaches at the University of Memphis, where she earned the MFA in Creative Writing. Her work appears regularly in literary journals, both print and online.
ISBN: 1933456485, 92 pages, $17.00