Elements & Offerings

“Dan Beachy-Quick’s poems bubble up from the ancient sources—the grand, deep sources—rich in antiquity and rendered in classical gravity. So how is it they glisten with such cutting-edge innovation, such true aliveness and invention? Beachy-Quick is one of our most erudite contemporary poets yet one of our most soulful. Such is the source of his wizardry. He knows that philosophy, rich and vital, is not just knowledge but a generative love of wisdom.” ~David Baker

“In Elements & Offerings, it’s as if language had suddenly woken up to its own existence and found itself astonished to be—to be composed simultaneously of thinking and of singing. Beachy-Quick, one of the great philosophical lyric makers of our age, draws from the deeply ancient in an idiom that is at the same time thrillingly new.” ~Bruce Beasley