Bøger af Dan Beachy-Quick

';A first novel of sorts that promises to be an engaging study of memory, storytelling, and coming of age.' Library Journal Daniel is pursued by stories. His father, in thrall to a myth, has disappeared; his mother and sister, too; and Lydia, his lover, leaves him and the novel he cannot finish for quantum mechanics, the place where theory tells tales about the real. And then there is Pearl, the girl beneath the floorboards, whose adventures hum alongside Daniel's own. In this contemporary, contemplative fairy tale, the autobiographical novel takes on the cast of legend, and the uncertainty of memory leaves reality on shaky ground. Can parallel universes exist? Can a preoccupation with Moby Dick overwhelm the story unfolding before you? Where do you stand in relation to the metaphysics of your own life? ';A rich, profound, fascinating book, the kind that widens the margins of everything we read.' Los Angeles Times ';Dive in, & beneath Beachy-Quick's carefully sculpted language, you'll find a love story... [Dan Beachy-Quick] writes with heightened lyricism, an ear for rhythm and rich sensory detail.' Chicago Tribune ';A marvelous novel, by turns lyrical, realistic, dreamlike, and philosophical but always intelligent and gorgeously written.' Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ';Dizzying and beautiful.' Los Angeles Review of Books

An examination of what binds poetic endeavor into a singular, shining whole

In Therapon poets Bruce Bond and Dan Beachy-Quick engage in a dialogue of near-sonnets, 13-lined investigations, both personal and cultural, that explore the unfinished, haunted, and unrepresentable nature of selfhood as best suggested and enlarged in gestures of exchange. Inspired by the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this book interrogates not only our ethical relation to others as beyond the pretense of our grasp, but also the notion that otherness inhabits each of us, however individuated and misunderstood, and makes our language possible, unstable, and inexhaustibly resourceful. In this way Therapon finds in dialogue not only its medium but its fascination, a sense of setting forth in friendship, and in friendship the mercies of the strange."This maze of poem we are led through-or not led, encouraged through-offers many threads to follow: 'one day a needle drags a filament / that in time dissolves like a sun on its passage.' That two authors can so coordinate their views of a world as to produce such lovely lyricism is itself a wonder, but that the resulting vision becomes, as binocular viewing always engenders, both multi-dimensional and convincing, is a continual gift continually opening before us. More than therapeutic, the book is a delight and a discovery." - Bin Ramke, author of Earth on Earth

From "one of the preeminent American visionaries of our moment" (G. C. Waldrep), a singular reflection on living well in a time of distraction and despair

Over the course of six critically acclaimed booksincluding a compelling meditation on Moby-DickDan Beachy-Quick has established himself as one of Americas most significant young poets (Lyn Hejinian).In Wonderful Investigations, Beachy-Quick broaches a hazy line, a faulty boundary between our daily world and one rich with wonder; a magical world in which, through his work as a writer, Beachy-Quick participates with a singular combination of critical intelligence and lyricism. Touching on the works of Emerson, Thoreau, Proust, and Plato, among others, Beachy-Quick outlines the problem of duality in modern thoughtthe separation of the mind and body, word and referent, intelligence and mystery, human and naturaland makes the case for a fuller kind of nature poetry, one that strives to overcome this false separation, and to celebrate the notion that wonder is the fact that the world has never ceased to be real.

A chapbook of interlocking poems that weave together the lyric and the political