This Nest, Swift Passerine - Softcover

Beachy-Quick, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932195602 ISBN 13: 9781932195606

Publisher: Tupelo Press, 2009

Synopsis

Poetry. One of the most acclaimed new poets in America entwines found and original texts, creating literal form--this book--out of sheer metaphor. In this language nest, the mind of poet and reader find a common dwelling place. Through this collaged material ("used" motifs running through include Echo and Narcissus, spider webs, and philosophy), the author reveals the nest of the mind/book as a never wholly original structure, but one that forms from found material.

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From the Publisher

"The form of this book lovingly builds a dwelling, avowal by vowel--a breathy mix of lyrical citation and citational lyric annunciation--tuned open, sonically alive, and homing in to the heart of song." --Peter Gizzi. "I understand the order Passeriformes includes half of all known bird species: THIS NEST, SWIFT PASSERINE has something of that largeness. This complex book has the fineness of etching, with firm, accurate lines placed close to each other so that one moves slowly along the passages and intensities: a heart is a small wind, . . . Moments such as this stop all forward movement, and cause me to catch my breath. It is an adventure, this book." -- Bin Ramke. "In THIS NEST, SWIFT PASSERINE, Beachy-Quick has seen the reflection of his words in those of other writers. He has followed their indications, taken hold of what he's found, and round about the poem has been built. Words twined to words. Words echoing words. Every word mine equally yours."  --Pam Rehm. "A concatenation of sound and sense, of science and swoon, Beachy-Quick writes lines of thought and fracture into an anarchy of form. Somewhere between chaos and its echo, he's an alchemist, more Dorothy than William, a sparrow, a spider, a little meditator gathering together a love letter to every breathing creature." --Kazim Ali

About the Author

Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of four books of poems: NORTH TRUE SOUTH BRIGHT, SPELL, MULBERRY, and most recently, This Nest, Swift Passerine. Collaborating with the poet Srikanth Reddy, he also worked on the double sonnet sequence in Mobius Crowns. A book of interlinked meditations on Melville's Moby-Dick, A Whaler's Dictionary, was published in the fall of 2008 by Milkweed Editions. He edits poetry for the journal A Public Space. He currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at Colorado State University, and will be a visiting writer at The Iowa Writer's Workshop for Spring 2010.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1932195602
• ISBN 13: 9781932195606
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72