The Daily Glance
Dan Beachy-Quick's This Nest, Swift Passerine is fascinating for the form alone, but more, the content is like a mix of poetry, commentary, science, and more. It's as if he's meditating on influence but also is responding to texts, so, for example, he includes passages of Dorothy Wordsworth's journal, and he writes to her and her topics seem to filter into other parts of the text. As for the form, the entire book is one poem broken down into sections, and, in general, the form is open. He includes things like lists and the points of the compass, and in quick succession the form will go from square stanzas to words thrown around the page.
Dan Beachy-Quick's This Nest, Swift Passerine is fascinating for the form alone, but more, the content is like a mix of poetry, commentary, science, and more. It's as if he's meditating on influence but also is responding to texts, so, for example, he includes passages of Dorothy Wordsworth's journal, and he writes to her and her topics seem to filter into other parts of the text. As for the form, the entire book is one poem broken down into sections, and, in general, the form is open. He includes things like lists and the points of the compass, and in quick succession the form will go from square stanzas to words thrown around the page.
Born into the order of wordsThese lines seem like a good description for this rich book, a book too rich for me to say much about in this brief glance. I look forward to going back through it slowly and enjoying the many voices that play in the lines.
(point at a tree the mother says, Tree
(pointing still mother says, Branch
(and still, seeing now what the child sees, Nest)
Nest the word echoes
Through centuries my mouth This Nest
Alive with words not spoken by me
Which I repeat back, repeat back
In the world to make my meaning heard.
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