Circle's Apprentice
by Dan Beachy-Quick
Tupelo Press, 2011
Paper: 978-1-932195-97-2
Library of Congress Classification PS3602.E24C57 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
Paper: 978-1-932195-97-2
Library of Congress Classification PS3602.E24C57 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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“[I]f Emerson provides Beachy-Quick with a metaphysics, it is American modernism that gives the book its formal and rhetorical peculiarities. The shape and tone of the poetry allude to T.S. Eliot’s fragments, Olson’s projective verse, and Howe’s elliptical lyricism. Lines from poetic mentors (Wallace Stevens in particular) drift in and out. Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos anchor the meditations of ‘Fragile Elegy,’ one of the most compelling poems in the book, and we might find in this relationship a helpful gloss on Beachy-Quick’s poetics.”— Justin Sider, Make Magazine
“Perhaps it is not a logical assumption that a collection of poems inspired by the philosophical musings in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay ‘Circles,’ would be especially exciting. Intelligent, yes, but compelling? Whimsical? In Dan Beachy-Quick’s Circle’s Apprentice, he conjures forth poems out of Emerson’s concepts which become not only compelling, but romantic and wild.” — Layla Benitez-James, Gulf Coast
TABLE OF CONTENTS
First
Lullaby 3
Lullaby 4
Demonstrative Lullaby 5
Lullaby 6
Lullaby 8
Second
Antique Foundation 11
Lines 13
Work / Poem 14
Poem 16
Poem 19
Old Song 21
Third
The Pharmakos 25
& co. 26
Poem 30
Anniversary 31
Fourth
Anniversary 35
Late Pastoral 36
Hypothesis / Hymn 38
Poem; or, The Artifacts 40
The Ziggurat 42
Catalog 44
Fifth
Fragile Elegy 49
Walking Through the Room 56
Arcadian 57
Dream-Portrait in Wartime 59
Chorus 62
Sixth
Minotaur’s Page 65
Chorus & Hero 66
Poem (Achilles’ Shield) 68
Cave Beneath Volcano 70
Seventh
Tomb Figurine 77
Tomb Figurine 78
Tomb Figurine 80
Tomb Figurine 81
Tomb Figurine 82
Acknowledgments 85
Lullaby 3
Lullaby 4
Demonstrative Lullaby 5
Lullaby 6
Lullaby 8
Second
Antique Foundation 11
Lines 13
Work / Poem 14
Poem 16
Poem 19
Old Song 21
Third
The Pharmakos 25
& co. 26
Poem 30
Anniversary 31
Fourth
Anniversary 35
Late Pastoral 36
Hypothesis / Hymn 38
Poem; or, The Artifacts 40
The Ziggurat 42
Catalog 44
Fifth
Fragile Elegy 49
Walking Through the Room 56
Arcadian 57
Dream-Portrait in Wartime 59
Chorus 62
Sixth
Minotaur’s Page 65
Chorus & Hero 66
Poem (Achilles’ Shield) 68
Cave Beneath Volcano 70
Seventh
Tomb Figurine 77
Tomb Figurine 78
Tomb Figurine 80
Tomb Figurine 81
Tomb Figurine 82
Acknowledgments 85
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