Bibliograph

Wonderful investigations, essays, meditations, tales, Dan Beachy-Quick

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Wonderful investigations, essays, meditations, tales, Dan Beachy-Quick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wonderful investigations

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

656451049

Responsibility statement

Dan Beachy-Quick

Sub title

essays, meditations, tales

Summary

"In this illuminating collection of prose, Dan Beachy-Quick broaches "a hazy line, a faulty boundary" between our daily world, "where we who have appetites must fill our mouths, we who have thoughts must fill our minds, " and another side, "within the world and beyond it, where appetite isn't to be sated, where desire is not to be fulfilled, and where thoughts refuse to lead to knowledge." Touching on the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Proust, among others, Beachy-Quick explores the problem of duality -- the separation of the mind and body, word and referent, intelligence and mystery -- striving throughout to overcome this false separation, and to celebrate the notion that "wonder is the fact that the world has never ceased to be real." Combining a rich critical intelligence and the lyricism that has made him "one of America's most significant young poets" (Lyn Hejinian), Wonderful Investigations is a wonder unto itself"--Front flap

Table Of Contents

Four essays: Hut of poetry -- Laurel crown -- Indweller's aversion -- Nightingale's drought, the nightingale's draught. Interlude: meditations: Typhonic meditation -- On verdant themes -- Meditations in the hut. Four tales: Song inside the bird song -- Children, the woods -- Point that flows -- Apology for the astrolabe. Epilogue: Puzzle and music box

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