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Midway through the journey of his life, Dan Beachy-Quick found himself without a path, unsure how to live well. Of Silence and Song follows him on his resulting classical search for meaning in the world and in his particular, quiet life. In essays, fragments, marginalia, images, travel writing, and poetry, Beachy-Quick traces his relationships and identities. As father and husband. As teacher and student. As citizen and scholar. And as poet and reader, wondering at the potential and limits of literature.

Of Silence and Song finds its infernoand its paradisein moments both historically vast and nakedly intimate. Hell: disappearing bees, James Eagan Holmes, Columbine, and the persistent, unforgivable crime of slavery. And redemption: in the art of Marcel Duchamp, the pressed flowers in Emily Dickinsons Bible, and long walks with his youngest daughter.

Curious, earnest, and masterful, Of Silence and Song is an unforgettable exploration of the human soul.

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Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of six collections of poems; two previous works of nonfiction; and a novel, among other projects. He is a contributing editor for the journals A Public Spaceand West Branch. His work has won the Colorado Book Award, and has been a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Prize and the PEN/USA Literary Award in Poetry. He is currently a Guggenheim Fellow and a Creative Fellow of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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