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

Author
Beachy-Quick, Dan, 1973-
Published
Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 212 pages)
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Contents
Table of Contents; Preface xv; Four Essays; The Hut of Poetry 3; The Laurel Crown 19; The Indweller's Aversion: Thoreau's Sacrificial Wonder 31; The Nightingale's Drought, the Nightingale's Draught: On Metaphor, Magic, and Symbol 63; Interlude: Meditations; I. Typhonic Meditation 97; II. On Verdant Themes:Toward One Sentence in Proust 101; III. Meditations in the Hut 111; Four Tales; The Song Inside the Bird Song 127; The Children, the Woods 135; A Point That Flows 157; Apology for the Astrolabe 179; Epilogue: Puzzle and Music Box 201.
Summary
Over the course of six critically acclaimed books--including a compelling meditation on Moby-Dick --Dan Beachy-Quick has established himself as "one of America's 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.
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9781571318411 (electronic bk.)
1571318410 (electronic bk.)
1571313273
9781571313270
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