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Stone-Garland: Six Poets from the Greek Lyric Tradition by Dan Beachy-Quick: New
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2020-09-08
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN
- 9781571315328
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
ISBN-10
1571315322
ISBN-13
9781571315328
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038643865
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stone-Garland
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General, Ancient & Classical
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Book Series
Seedbank Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-010537
Reviews
Praise for Of Song and Silence "Responding to the silence from which poetry arises, Dan Beachy-Quick is not afraid to follow the call of thought, wherever it may lead. This book situates itself beyond the noise of the times." -- Robert Pogue Harrison, author of Gardens: An Essay on the Human "You read here that, etymologically, ''consider'' means ''to examine the stars. To draw the connections between the distant points.'' If that is so, then Of Silence and Song is a clear night sky full of constellations. From the bean fields that Pythagoras would not enter to the verses of her Bible that Dickinson cut out, from his daughter Iris''s fear of the dark to the ''tenth Muse seldom mentioned,'' from here to heliopause, Dan Beachy-Quick crosses great expanses in this book-length, acutely human consideration, flickering in the hunch that ''question and answer are the same thing--one. . . just the disappearance of the other.''"-- Brian Blanchfield "It''s an exciting thing when a writer of real originality and scope discovers a form that both focuses and liberates his gift. Dan Beachy-Quick is such a writer, and Of Silence and Song is such a book. One doesn''t think to use the word ''ennobling'' of many works of contemporary art, but this one is."-- Christian Wiman Praise for Wonderful Investigations " Wonderful Investigations juxtaposes four essays with three ''meditations'' and four fable-like ''tales'' to trace the tension between mind and body, between our inner and our outer lives. A poet, Dan Beachy-Quick is terrific with an image and relies on antecedents here from Plato to Thoreau to give his work a context and a depth."-- Los Angeles Times " Wonderful Investigations is a model of intense observation, of a mind reaching out as far as it can. Always Dan Beachy-Quick seems to write in metaphor, returning to the process of wonder, and why it''s so necessary, and then to the failure of language and poetry to ever truly take us where we want to go. . . . His reader cannot help but feel the same desire for that hazy line--cannot help but want to reach for it as well."-- Ploughshares "This is a book about reading. It offers the kinds of insights into the act that most of us never stop to indulge in, and for that we are eternally grateful. . . . The idea that reading offers a dream world, a parallel one, is familiar. But Dan Beachy-Quick takes this a step farther. Reading before sleep, reading books to children before they go to sleep, is a way to slide gently through a middle place and into forgetting."-- Los Angeles Review of Books Praise for A Whaler''s Dictionary "Essayistic, inventive, and frequently brilliant."-- Poetry Foundation "This is a rich, profound, fascinating book, the kind that widens the margins of everything we read, making room for new observations, more creative relationships all around: writer/reader, person/book, literature/life."-- Los Angeles Times "Wounded by a book, wounded by the force of idolatrous speech in Moby-Dick, Dan Beachy-Quick has mounted a kind of folly, a nautilus, enclosing the furtive wall of his own lyric sensibility. A Whaler''s Dictionary reminds us why poets must sometimes measure their gifts against the calculus of prose, and why criticism by poets, unlike academic arguments, sometimes produces a flame which stands the test of time."-- Daniel Tiffany, author of Toy Medium and Puppet Wardrobe "This is a major work on the charged relationship that can come into being between text and reader, written by one of America''s most significant young poets."-- Lyn Hejinian, author of Saga/Circus and The Fatalist " A Whaler''s Dictionary manages to function as an oddly ideal work of criticism, breathing new life into Moby-Dick and showing how the novel subsists as an intricately living thing."-- Virginia Quarterly Review, Praise for Of Song and Silence "Responding to the silence from which poetry arises, Dan Beachy-Quick is not afraid to follow the call of thought, wherever it may lead. This book situates itself beyond the noise of the times." -- Robert Pogue Harrison, author of Gardens: An Essay on the Human "You read here that, etymologically, ''consider'' means ''to examine the stars. To draw the connections between the distant points.'' If that is so, then Of Silence and Song is a clear night sky full of constellations. From the bean fields that Pythagoras would not enter to the verses of her Bible that Dickinson cut out, from his daughter Iris''s fear of the dark to the ''tenth Muse seldom mentioned,'' from here to heliopause, Dan Beachy-Quick crosses great expanses in this book-length, acutely human consideration, flickering in the hunch that ''question and answer are the same thing--one. . . just the disappearance of the other.''"-- Brian Blanchfield, author of Proxies "It''s an exciting thing when a writer of real originality and scope discovers a form that both focuses and liberates his gift. Dan Beachy-Quick is such a writer, and Of Silence and Song is such a book. One doesn''t think to use the word ''ennobling'' of many works of contemporary art, but this one is."-- Christian Wiman, author of Every Riven Thing Praise for A Whaler''s Dictionary "Essayistic, inventive, and frequently brilliant."-- Poetry Foundation "This is a rich, profound, fascinating book, the kind that widens the margins of everything we read, making room for new observations, more creative relationships all around: writer/reader, person/book, literature/life."-- Los Angeles Times "Wounded by a book, wounded by the force of idolatrous speech in Moby-Dick, Dan Beachy-Quick has mounted a kind of folly, a nautilus, enclosing the furtive wall of his own lyric sensibility. A Whaler''s Dictionary reminds us why poets must sometimes measure their gifts against the calculus of prose, and why criticism by poets, unlike academic arguments, sometimes produces a flame which stands the test of time."-- Daniel Tiffany, author of Toy Medium and Puppet Wardrobe "This is a major work on the charged relationship that can come into being between text and reader, written by one of America''s most significant young poets."-- Lyn Hejinian, author of Saga/Circus and The Fatalist " A Whaler''s Dictionary manages to function as an oddly ideal work of criticism, breathing new life into Moby-Dick and showing how the novel subsists as an intricately living thing."-- Virginia Quarterly Review Praise for Wonderful Investigations " Wonderful Investigations juxtaposes four essays with three ''meditations'' and four fable-like ''tales'' to trace the tension between mind and body, between our inner and our outer lives. A poet, Dan Beachy-Quick is terrific with an image and relies on antecedents here from Plato to Thoreau to give his work a context and a depth."-- Los Angeles Times " Wonderful Investigations is a model of intense observation, of a mind reaching out as far as it can. Always Dan Beachy-Quick seems to write in metaphor, returning to the process of wonder, and why it''s so necessary, and then to the failure of language and poetry to ever truly take us where we want to go. . . . His reader cannot help but feel the same desire for that hazy line--cannot help but want to reach for it as well."-- Ploughshares "This is a book about reading. It offers the kinds of insights into the act that most of us never stop to indulge in, and for that we are eternally grateful. . . . The idea that reading offers a dream world, a parallel one, is familiar. But Dan Beachy-Quick takes this a step farther. Reading before sleep, reading books to children before they go to sleep, is a way to slide gently through a middle place and into forgetting."-- Los Angeles Review of Books, Praise for Of Song and Silence "Responding to the silence from which poetry arises, Dan Beachy-Quick is not afraid to follow the call of thought, wherever it may lead. This book situates itself beyond the noise of the times." -- Robert Pogue Harrison, author of Gardens: An Essay on the Human "You read here that, etymologically, 'consider' means 'to examine the stars. To draw the connections between the distant points.' If that is so, then Of Silence and Song is a clear night sky full of constellations. From the bean fields that Pythagoras would not enter to the verses of her Bible that Dickinson cut out, from his daughter Iris's fear of the dark to the 'tenth Muse seldom mentioned,' from here to heliopause, Dan Beachy-Quick crosses great expanses in this book-length, acutely human consideration, flickering in the hunch that 'question and answer are the same thing--one. . . just the disappearance of the other.'"-- Brian Blanchfield, author of Proxies "It's an exciting thing when a writer of real originality and scope discovers a form that both focuses and liberates his gift. Dan Beachy-Quick is such a writer, and Of Silence and Song is such a book. One doesn't think to use the word 'ennobling' of many works of contemporary art, but this one is."-- Christian Wiman, author of Every Riven Thing Praise for Variations on Dawn and Dusk Longlist, National Book Awards 2019 for Poetry "A work of ekphrasis based on Robert Irwin's Untitled (Dawn to Dusk) set in the desert of Marfa, Tex., draws inspiration from the sun as it warms, cools, colors, and shifts, resulting in a series of poems whose patterns are informed by their subject: light."-- Publishers Weekly "In Variations on Dawn and Dusk what's spoken is almost sung, and what's sung is quickly lost, but what remains is a trace of presence as political as it is spiritual, reminding the reader that we're constituted by what passes through us, what we're open to. . . . But what a space, lit with such generosity and heart! It is aspirational, it is hopeful, it is not sentimental. It has a truly counter-cultural music that makes use of hums and whispers and silences. As I read Variations on Dawn and Dusk I almost felt as if my body unfroze. It simply delivers light."-- Katie Peterson, author of The Accounts "A true American metaphysical in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Susan Howe, Beachy-Quick is our postmodern antinomian, suspicious not of a moribund faith but of the truth claims of consciousness itself. These fierce lyrics of existential grief display his preternatural attunement to thought at the moment it turns inward upon itself not for comfort but in grave confrontation."-- Brian Teare, author of Doomstead Days "Something quite literally ultimate transpires in these Variations on Dawn and Dusk , as Beachy-Quick has found a way to map the interstices--between quanta of light; between syllables; between the nearly inaudible sounds of colors upon surface. To my certain knowledge, no one has accomplished this since Dame Julian of Norwich. These quiet poems are a torrent of angels, and I cannot look away."-- Donald Revell, author of The English Boat
Series Volume Number
5
Synopsis
"As part of the publisher's 'Seedbank' series, aiming to preserve endangered literatures, the poet Beachy-Quick offers a modern gloss on six ancient Greeks." -- New York Times Book Review , "New & Noteworthy Poetry", "As part of the publisher's 'Seedbank' series, aiming to preserve endangered literatures, the poet Beachy-Quick offers a modern gloss on six ancient Greeks."-- New York Times Book Review , "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Anthology. The Greek origins of the word gesture at a bouquet, a garland; "a flower-logic, a petal-theory, a blossom-word." In Stone-Garland , Dan Beachy-Quick brings the term back to its roots, linking together the lives and words of six singular ancient Greeks. Simonides: honest servant to patrons. Anacreon: lustful singer, living on in the work of his acolytes. Archilochus: cruel critic, beloved of the Muses. Alcman: who took birds as his teachers. Theognis: chronicler of human excellence and vice. Callimachus: cosmopolitan head librarian at Alexandria. These are the poets who appear in these pages, sometimes in fragments, sometimes in sustained glimpses. Drawing inspiration from the Greek Anthology , first drafted in the first century BC, Beachy-Quick presents translations filled with lovers and children, gods and insects, earth and water, ideas and ideals. Throughout, the line between the ancient and the contemporary blurs, and "the logic of how life should be lived decays wondrously into the more difficult possibilities of what life is." Spare, earthy, lovely, Stone-Garland offers readers of the Seedbank series its lyric blossoms and subtle weave, a walk through a cemetery that is also a garden.
LC Classification Number
PA3622B43 2020
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