James Beall\'s work is at first an enigma.
Poetry has long been linked to medicine; in mytholo.
The literary landscape is rife with physician poets, of course.
For here is a poet blessed with double vision, a man who sees the world with both brain and heart, who is fully at home in his bicameral mind, scientist and mystic at once..
What to make of his challenging vision, his unique voice, the round-about syntax, his penchant for unfamiliar diction, his seemingly schizophrenic take on the world.
James Beall\'s work is at first an enigma