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Wonderful Investigations
Milkweed Editions 2012; US$ 19.99Over the course of six critically acclaimed booksincluding a compelling meditation on Moby-Dick Dan Beachy-Quick has established himself as one of America’s most significant young poets” (Lyn Hejinian). In Wonderful Investigations , Beachy-Quick broaches a hazy line, a faulty boundary” between our daily world and one rich with wonder; a magical... more...
A Brighter Word Than Bright
University of Iowa Press 2013; US$ 20.40The Romantic poet John Keats, considered by many as one of the greatest poets in the English language, has long been the subject of attention from scholars who seek to understand him and poets who seek to emulate him. Bridging these impulses, A Brighter Word Than Bright is neither historical biography nor scholarly study, but instead a biography... more...
Visiting Hours at the Color Line
Milkweed Editions 2013; US$ 15.99Often the most recognized, even brutal, events in American history are assigned a bifurcated public narrative. We divide historical and cultural life into two camps, often segregated by a politicized, racially divided "Color Line." But how do we privately experience the most troubling features of American civilization? Where is the Color Line in the... more...
Active Romanticism
University of Alabama Press 2015; US$ 33.96Literary history generally locates the primary movement toward poetic innovation in twentieth-century modernism, an impulse carried out against a supposedly enervated “late-Romantic” poetry of the nineteenth century. The original essays in Active Romanticism challenge this interpretation by tracing the fundamental continuities between Romanticism’s... more...
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