Of Silence and Song. Dan Beachy-Quick

Of Silence and Song - Dan Beachy-Quick


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      Also by Dan Beachy-Quick

      Nonfiction

       Wonderful Investigations

       A Whaler’s Dictionary

       A Brighter Word Than Bright: Keats at Work

      Fiction

       An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky

      Poetry

       North True South Bright

       Spell

       Mulberry

       This Nest, Swift Passerine

       Circle’s Apprentice

       Gentlessness

      © 2017, Text by Dan Beachy-Quick

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Suite 300, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415.

      (800) 520-6455

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      Published 2017 by Milkweed Editions

      Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker

      Cover artwork by Megan Canning, All my body calls, 2008, Hand embroidery on linen with cotton, 16” × 12” × 3”

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

       Names: Beachy-Quick, Dan, 1973- author.

       Title: Of silence and song / Dan Beachy-Quick.

       Description: Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2017.

       Identifiers: LCCN 2017036026 (print) | LCCN 2017036678 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571319432 (ebook)

       Classification: LCC PS3602.E24 (ebook) | LCC PS3602.E24 A6 2017 (print) | DDC 811/.6--dc23

       LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036026

      Milkweed Editions is committed to ecological stewardship. We strive to align our book production practices with this principle, and to reduce the impact of our operations in the environment. We are a member of the Green Press Initiative, a nonprofit coalition of publishers, manufacturers, and authors working to protect the world’s endangered forests and conserve natural resources. Of Silence and Song was printed on acid-free 100% postconsumer-waste paper by Friesens Corporation.

      for Kristy, Hana, Iris, & my mother

      —prism, light—

       Every spirit makes its house; but afterwards the house confines the spirit.

      —RALPH WALDO EMERSON, “FATE”

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      There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself; it is the mystical.

      —LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS

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       Light that makes some things seen, makes some things invisible.

      —SIR THOMAS BROWNE, THE GARDEN OF CYRUS; OR, THE QUINCUNX

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       What is worse, knowledge is made by oblivion.

      —SIR THOMAS BROWNE, PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA

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       Thought kills me that I am not thought.

      —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SONNET 44

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       Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

      —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 25.

      Chapter 26.

      Digestion

      Monadisms

      Pythagorean Silence

      Heraclitean Thirst

      Chapter 31.

      Chapter 32.

      Chapter 33.

      Chapter 34.

      Atlantis

      Chapter 36.

      Chapter 37.

      Circles

      Waves

      Chapter 40.

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