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"Beverly Dahlen's SOMETHING/NOTHING presents essays of intrepid curiosity and investigative propulsion. These are works of distinctive philosophic speculation, examining religion, beauty, psychoanalytic thought, poetries, literary meaning, mind, and gender. Dahlen engages striking rhythms...

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Main Author: Dahlen, Beverly (Author)
Other Authors: Drescher, Julia (Editor), Saidenberg, Jocelyn, Gevirtz, Susan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Colorado Springs, CO] : Further Other Book Works, ©2025.
Subjects:
Poetry.
American essays > 21st century.
Poésie.
Essais américains > 21e siècle.
poetry.
American essays
Poetry
2000-2099
Table of Contents:
  • Forbidden knowledge
  • "Nothing' is the force / That renovates the world--"
  • Beginning with a dark house
  • Tautology and the real
  • Notes on intention and editing
  • The moon (drafts)
  • Jack Spicer's Ocean
  • SOMETHING/NOTHING
  • From "The Tradition of Marginality"
  • Beauty: Another reading
  • Lines
  • In re "person"
  • A reading: Emily Dickinson: "Powers of Horror"
  • The uses of suicide
  • Statement for panel on Robert Duncan
  • Some notes on George Stanley's Vancouver: A poem
  • Uncle Fred
  • Legacies & progenitors
  • For Kathleen Fraser's movable TYYPE
  • A reading: Beginning with George Stanley's "Feeling Out"
  • A circular metaphor
  • On experiment
  • Homonymous: A meditation on H.D.'s Trilogy
  • Hail Mary
  • Statement for panel on gender
  • Sex and death
  • A force of language
  • Carnal knowledge: A writing experiment.