{"product_id":"wonderful-investigations-essays-meditations-tales-paperback","title":"Wonderful Investigations: Essays, Meditations, Tales - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Beachy-Quick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"one of America's most significant young poets\" (Lyn Hejinian), an exceptional book of nonfiction and fables that provides a walking tour of the creative mind.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWonderful Investigations\u003c\/em\u003e, Dan 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, he 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 of duality in modern thought--the separation of the mind and body, word and referent, intelligence and mystery, human and natural--and makes the case for a fuller kind of nature poetry, one that strives to overcome this false separation, and to celebrate the notion that \"wonder is the fact that the world has never ceased to be real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuminous, generous, and unceasingly curious, \u003cem\u003eWonderful Investigations \u003c\/em\u003eis a rich investigation of what it means to think, read, write, and learn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFRONT FLAP: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If there is a wish in this book, it is merely this: That through the whole, as per Plato's definition of a line, is a 'point that flows, ' and that the reader may find that point and follow it as it flows toward that edge where the margin becomes a center, and the end of the book the hazy border to the wonder-world.\" --from the Preface \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 work 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining a rich critical intelligence and the lyricism that has made him one of \"one of America's most significant young poets\" (Lyn Hejinian), \u003ci\u003eWonderful Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonder unto itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBACK FLAP: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDan Beachy-Quick is the author of five collections of poems, most recently Circle's Apprentice. A Whaler's Dictionary, his celebrated collection of meditations on Melville's Moby-Dick, appeared from Milkweed Editions in 2008. Beachy-Quick teaches at Colorado State University, and lives in Fort Collins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCover design: Gretchen Achilles\/Wavetrap Design\u003cbr\u003eCover photo: Abelardo Morrell\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Photo: Sergio Vucci\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDan Beachy-Quick is the author of four acclaimed collections of poems: \u003ci\u003eNorth True South Bright\u003c\/i\u003e (Alice James, 2003), \u003ci\u003eSpell\u003c\/i\u003e (Ahsahta, 2004), \u003ci\u003eMulberry\u003c\/i\u003e (Tupelo, 2006), and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThis Nest, Swift Passerine\u003c\/i\u003e (Tupelo, 2009). In 2008, Milkweed Editions published his first work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eA Whaler's Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e. He completed his MFA in poetry at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation residency among many other honors. Beachy-Quick previously taught in the Writing Program at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently an associate professor of English at Colorado State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 7.94 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771451244832,"sku":"9781571313270","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e570c04e00cfedfaffc74cac36cef8e5.webp?v=1780386824","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/wonderful-investigations-essays-meditations-tales-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}