Prayershreds

by Bruce Beasley

Suppose the shreds of our prayers and of our faiths could themselves become a radical new form of devotion. In Prayershreds , Bruce Beasley confronts the apocalyptic zeitgeist of our time (political turmoil, societal division and isolation, spiritual despair, environmental catastrophe) and the crisis of faith in the human future. These poems make of the vocabulary of doubt a strange kind of sermon, summoning into chorus Heraclitus, Zeno, the Buddha, Roget's Thesaurus, ancient prayers and hymns and scriptures, and an AI chatbot. In these fractured and ecstatic psalms, Beasley makes his ruptured way toward a faith that relies not on dogmas and creeds, but on a broken utterance for a torn and living faith.

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2023

Reviews

[Kelly Sauskojus · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love a book of odd and imaginative and doubting religious poetry. And very grateful to have learned about its publisher who's right here in Asheville!