posted on 2017-05-14, 12:03authored byRobert Savage
In his celebrated livre composéLetters to Live Poets, Bruce Beaver forged a poetry of the suffering, narcissistic self, deeply estranged from an «uglier than ugly» (II) society and in constant danger of disintegrating into madness. Beaver's undisguised solipsism is remarkable even for a confessional poet.