Everywhere, Everywhere
Jeffrey Bean
Published by Cloudbank Books, Everywhere, Everywhere is the winner of the Vern Rutsala Book Prize for 2024. “The poems of Everywhere, Everywhere stick in the mind long after the collection is put down. The images are fresh and the narratives and implied narratives memorable.” —Robert Morgan, Author of The Oratorio That Was Time
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“Jeffrey Bean blends the ordinary and the magical with deftly sinuous musical lines that move and turn through interior and exterior worlds with grace, speed, and surprise. These poems mark, with dexterous precision, the everyday details of place, home, and family—burnishing them with imagery that makes the ordinary remarkable and glazes the day-to-day with the surreal and imaginative wonder of human interiority. These are poems that joyously celebrate presence and attentiveness. You will want to read them everywhere, take them with you everywhere.
—Lee Ann Roripaugh, Author of Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50
“Many of the poems have a litany effect, a vigor of repetition and variation. Simple words such as “blue” can become talismanic. There is a motif of yards, many surprises, and a range of subjects, but the poems cohere into a satisfying unity. A poem such as “My great-great grandfather’s glasses” has both realistic detail, energy of fantasy, and a soaring ending. Many poems like “Mirror” have perfect endings. Bean has a special sense of history lurking in the everyday, and the future looking on. These poems help us see the world, words, and sometimes, ourselves, anew.”
—Robert Morgan, Author of The Oratorio That Was Time
ˆIn the marvelous Everywhere, Everywhere, it’s perfect to find a poem called “My Friends!” because every single poem in this book feels like a friend we could embrace or exclaim over— then introduce to another beloved friend. With subtle tuning and timing, potent imagery, and a dream-like transporting power, Bean restores us to lost worlds, invites the intense gaze of childhood to remain the most real vision we will ever know, and transports us to a flexible realm where, indeed, everywhere and everything matters. There’s so much alchemy here. I found my favorite poem ever written to a comforting guitar, my favorite love poem to a partner, and the best poem yet to weird pandemic isolations. Get ready for your new favorite book.”
—Naomi Shihab Nye, Author of Grace Notes: Poems about Families
About Jeffrey Bean
Jeffrey Bean is the author of Woman Putting on Pearls, winner of the 2016 Red Mountain Poetry Prize, and Ella’s Plan, winner of the 2022 Poet’s Corner/Maine Media Chapbook Contest. He is a Professor of English at Central Michigan University. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan with his wife and daughter. www.jeffreybeanpoet.com
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