{"product_id":"verdant-jeffery-beam-9780998929347","title":"Verdant","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffery Beam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0998929344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780998929347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d","brand":"Jeffery Beam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987217547519,"sku":"9780998929347","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_02b432d5-335c-4b04-a6d0-de706feb76bf.jpg?v=1683287662","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/verdant-jeffery-beam-9780998929347","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}