Dan Beachy-Quick

Jan 6, 2025 | thebaffler.com | Dan Beachy-Quick |Terrance Hayes |VI Khi Nao

The maker is blessed, though babble be the measure of the necessary wood, that matter, the mind’s muttering sounds, μὺ μῦ, a hum, a moan, a moon, the myth a mouth is, making murmur into the intricate dust of the moth’s fragile wing, muons & other charms, museums & music, a syllable in the chaos, & how can it be what is, Par- menides & Pythagoras, an is and is-not, & a letter that might be a god, a god in the old sense, in which an elm leaf is also a god, & so is a thief, & blessed is the...

Sep 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Dan Beachy-Quick

A poet I love, Allen Grossman, wrote a poem titled “The Chinese Pot” (2001), which begins:Mind is a pot. Let it stand foreveragainst the leakinessof things. These lines offered me a thought I’d never had before: A pot is many things, from a vessel of practical use to one of artistic refinement—a way of knowing, an epistemology.

Dec 1, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Bruce Bond |Dan Beachy-Quick |Virginia Konchan

By Bruce Bond and Dan Beachy-Quick A poetic disambiguation of “therapon” (“ancient chamber” in Greek, often translated as “attendant”), and oneiric dialogue steeped in music and mystery, Therapon, by Dan Beachy-Quick and Bruce Bond, comprises 60 near-sonnets. The book breathes new life into collaboration with its fluid entwining of two voices whose elliptical, Socratic questioning recall poetry’s roots in oral and philosophical traditions.

Sep 1, 2023 | artforum.com | Dan Beachy-Quick

Simplicity can feel visionary in a way that a more striving, complicated approach can fail to achieve. Jenene Nagy, in her exhibition “While navigating the distance around the sun,” reduced the materials for her art to the simplest measure: paper and graphite. Those elements evoke multiple connotations of the primary: from grade-school supplies—pencils, lined paper—to the immediacy of a sketch in a notebook.