This Nest, Swift Passerine By Dan Beachy-Quick

Beautiful and strange like a new Emerson in lyric 1932195602 This book of poetry is probably smarter than me And while I could appreciate parts of it I m left confused at the end It does have beautiful sounds and play with the language I wish I understood it better 1932195602 My review for This Nest Swift Parrerine is up at 1932195602 The last third of this book far outshines the first two thirds 1932195602 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 This Nest Swift PasserineWhile Beachy Quick composes several compelling tiles in this mosaic including prose stanzas involving dying monarch butterflies on a marigold mossed median the majority of the lines that resonated with me were actually written by the authors he samples Dorothy Wordsworth Martin Buber Charles Dickens In other words I like the idea of the book than its execution. In one tile Beachy Quick notes that the human eye at the end of telescope has found regions in the sky where impossible stars are seen 13 I find that if I read his text as if through such a lens focusing on stars amid the dark matter I can appreciate the glints such as the tooth that stars through a child s gum 51 I want shards of imagery less clamor at ecstasy but ecstasysings the blankspace on the page between eachword is Letheexquisite when spoken true 45 1932195602 Beautiful woven lyric dealing primarily with representation Thinking about language as echoes and the way witness of the real continually reverberates Deals with critical themes than in his early books but the playfulness of form is quintessential B Q 1932195602 At last a book at least as strong as North True South Bright I am utterly impressed with this book its project its careful intelligence and its breadth of thought though this may be biased by a talk I got to see Beachy Quick give about the act of reading and the complicated ways reading can be insinuated into writing This Next Swift Passerine could easily be seen as an extension of that talk except the idea gets further elaborated with images One of my favorite is Echo calling back to Narcissus Such a subtle touch to describe the way our initial thoughts on the world world can be unraveled out into infinite possibilities 1932195602 Lately I m fascinated by commonplace books and the connections and back and forth conversations between our reading and writing so I think I d have loved this book simply for being a sort of commonplace book even if it wasn t gorgeous and wise and unlike anything I ve ever read which it is all of those things The commonplace book aspect quotations from Dorothy Wordsworth and Shakespeare and scientists whose names I can t remember are woven into the text appearing and reappearing in surprising just right seeming places The gorgeous and wise aspect I love and admire the way this book maybe like all true books of poems is unabashedly itself and full of stuff that would easily seem cliched anywhere else birds and pines and winter and love DBQ I noticed several of the commenters refer to him by his initials writes so beautifully and from what feels like a deeply honest true to himself way that they all seem fully alive not cliched at all I love the way there s a dreamy quality to the work but also a precision I love the way the writing loops back on itself and the way the words and images gather weight through that process Hooray for discovering DBQ now I need to read of his work 1932195602 Happy National Poetry month 2018 Trying to discover new poets and fell for this poet hard He lives in Colorado and I think as well as an American poet he is a Colorado poet that weaves mountain and plains and song and words together quite evocatively He is inspired by the Transcendentalists and also Melville and in this book quotes from Dorothy Wordsworth s journal the poet s sister who is credited for being his constant walking companion and uses her words to sketch a world of songbirds and song Each one an Echo and Echo myselfChaos the root in my mouth silence The child s mouth before a tooth breaks throughAnd then tongue presses against teethAnd speaks a word Born into the order of words pointing at a tree the mother says Tree pointing still mother says Branch and still seeing now what the child sees Nest Nest the word echoesThrough centuries my mouth This NestAlive with words not spoken by meWhich I repeat back repeat backIn the world to make my meaning heard excerpt from title poem But how find how as it flew onward the mountains gave back the soundto say what I mean the call of the bird the echoe after to say I ve seen Raven hungers and calls and the mountainHungers back and callsThe whole range of peaks in the bird s beak. Raven lonely and the mountain ringsLoneliness the echoe after we could seehim no longer The echo after we could see Light in echo the eye seesalso through the ear a double infinity 1932195602