Description
Beverly Dahlen
978–0–989313–29–2
220 pages
$18.95
Jacket copy:
“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 of meditation and surmise. These essays are both abrupt and pensive, pulsing with originality. Collected here by a perceptive editor and a committed publisher, this work parallels Dahlen’s A Reading, her important prose-poem. In its challenging quirks and insistent analyses, SOMETHING/NOTHING might have been titled A Thinking. Dahlen’s work is vital, original, and above all, bold.” –Rachel Blau DuPlessis, author of Drafts
About the author:
Beverly Dahlen is an American poet. Her first book Out of the Third, was published by Momo’s Press in 1974. Two chapbooks, A Letter at Easter (1976) and The Egyptian Poems (1983) were followed by the publication of the first volume of A Reading 1-7 (1985), a serial poem that continues to be in process. Since then, four more volumes of A Reading have appeared: A Reading 11-17 (1989), A Reading 8-10 (1992), A-Reading Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets (2004), and A Reading 18-20 (2008). Dahlen earned her B.A. from Humboldt State University and continued her studies at San Francisco State University. She was a co-founder, with Kathleen Fraser and Frances Jaffer, of the feminist poetics newsletter HOW(ever). She taught at the Adult Learning Center (a program of City College of San Francisco) and through the Poetry in the Schools program. In 2011 she received a Small Press Traffic Lifetime Achievement Award and, in 2013, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award. She lives in San Francisco.
A Late Addition:
Read a piece we missed here: Bev’s review of two books by Robert Gluck from 1983.
