Full Description
Describing his new book as "an intimate primer to a history of literary epochs," Dan Beachy-Quick summons his belief that tradition and experiment are mutually embracing, and his curiosity about humble forms of song and rhyme as figures of enchantment that induce the most primal modes of perception. gentlessness is the work of a poetic archaeologist who finds relict layers of meaning still alive in traditional measures and forms.
Contents
Contents
monadisms: a proem 1
a short treatise on the nature of the gods 7
Heroism 21
Puritanisms 35
overtakelessness 47
Romanticisms 65
Modernisms 81
In a Station of the Metro 83
No Man's Land 85
The New World 88
Paperwhite 93
Portrait 94
Portrait (after Arcimboldo) 97
Acknowledgments 102
