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Dan Beachy-Quick
An examination of what binds poetic endeavor into a singular, shining whole
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This lyric debut collection is grounded in history and nature.
Acting as poetic records of light, the poems in Variations on Dawn and Dusk follow the sun as it warms, cools, colors, and shifts the space of Robert Irwin’s untitled…
The artist Roni Horn’s permanent installation in Iceland, Library of Water, consists of floor-to-ceiling cylinders filled with water-melted ice from all of Iceland’s twenty-four glaciers. These poems are inspired by…
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Offers a biography of John Keats’s poetic imagination. Here the noted poet Dan Beachy-Quick enters into Keats’s writing - both his letters and his poems - not to critique or…
From one of the nation’s most dynamic and celebrated young poets, an extended dialogue with the greatest masterpiece of American literature, Moby-Dick.
Taking its inspiration-and, for that matter, its form-from…
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 &…
"From acclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick comes this new addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid translation of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and…
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Tree of Life meets In Search of Lost Time in this contemporary tale of loss and the power of story.
Touching on the works of Emerson, Thoreau, Proust, and Plato, among others, this title outlines the problem of duality in modern thought - the separation of the mind and body…
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
A chapbook of interlocking poems that weave together the lyric and the political
Dan Beachy-Quick writes, "There are depths within the denotative life of Greek words that English seldom allows readers in translation to access. At some basic level, I wanted to offer…
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Ed Pavlic
Often the most recognized, even brutal, events in American history are assigned a bifurcated public narrative. We divide historical and cultural life into two camps, often segregated by a politicized…
