A Whaler's Dictionary - by Dan Beachy-Quick (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Taking both form and inspiration from Ishmael's abandoned "Cetalogical Dictionary," this highly original work muses on myth, representation, language, nature, consciousness, notions of spiritual quest, and other elements of Melville's masterpiece. From "Accuracy" to "Wound," "Adam" to "Void," "Babel" to "Silence," these cross-referential, highly associative entries comprise an utterly singular work of art. "A Whaler's Dictionary" is the mesmerizing product of a total immersion into one of the greatest novels in the English language.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Taking both form and inspiration from Ishmael's abandoned Cetalogical Dictionary, this highly original work muses on myth, representation, language, nature, consciousness, notions of spiritual quest, and other elements of Melville's masterpiece. From Accuracy to Wound, Adam to Void, Babel to Silence, these cross-referential, highly associative entries comprise an utterly singular work of art. <i>A Whaler's Dictionary</i> is the mesmerizing product of a total immersion into one of the greatest novels in the English language.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>"Essayistic, inventive, and frequently brilliant."<br><b><i>--Poetry Foundation</b></i> <p/>"This is a rich, profound, fascinating book, the kind that widens the margins of everything we read, making room for new observations, more creative relationships all around: writer/reader, person/book, literature/life."<br><b><i>--Los Angeles Times</b></i> <p/>"Wounded by a book, wounded by the force of idolatrous speech in Moby-Dick, Dan Beachy-Quick has mounted a kind of folly, a nautilus, enclosing the furtive wall of his own lyric sensibility. <i>A Whaler's Dictionary</i> reminds us why poets must sometimes measure their gifts against the calculus of prose, and why criticism by poets, unlike academic arguments, sometimes produces a flame which stands the test of time."<br><b>--Daniel Tiffany, author of <i>Toy Medium</i> and <i>Puppet Wardrobe</b></i> <p/>"This is a major work on the charged relationship that can come into being between text and reader, written by one of America's most significant young poets."<br><b>--Lyn Hejinian, author of <i>Saga/Circus</i> and <i>The Fatalist</i></b> <p/>"<i>A Whaler's Dictionary</i> manages to function as an oddly ideal work of criticism, breathing new life into Moby-Dick and showing how the novel subsists as an intricately living thing."<br><b><i>--Virginia Quarterly Review</i></b><br><br>
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