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Spell (New Series #5)
Poetry. Dan Beachy-Quick confirms the promise of his first book and greatly extends the range and scope of his writing with this brilliant fantasia on a theme by Herman Melville. This multi-layered poetic work engages with Melville's text as well as with myth and with the ideas of spiritual quest, the role of the writer, and the nature of language. Rewarding multiple readi...more
Paperback, 130 pages
Published
April 1st 2004
by Ahsahta Press
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A careful student of Melville, Beachy-Quick writes an homage to Moby Dick. He's a sort of language-y/experimental poet (what's the best term? This work is mostly coherent but very concerned with the ways words sound, rather than the imitation of speech or meditation; an example: "The spear-struck/ Whale churns with his massive tail the water/ To white-roil, fury, turmoil, to gale-height waves/ When no gale blows--spear-struck, and then sounds/ Ocean-down as long as breath allows.")
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At the word level, as at many other levels, this is a very satisfying book. Strike, stave, ink, quill, inquiry, cast, barrel, darkens, thinnest, speared, depth, uncoils, wound, cask, globules.
Great! All poets can learn a lot from this book!
This is Dan at his most daring & ambitious.
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“I see the world is flat and the map flat
that records it, and both page and world
speak each other forever. Put a fold
in eternity and it is just as flat and wide.
Take the map of the world and fold it
into a boat and the boat becomes the world.”
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that records it, and both page and world
speak each other forever. Put a fold
in eternity and it is just as flat and wide.
Take the map of the world and fold it
into a boat and the boat becomes the world.”
