Three Interlinked Selections from A Whaler’s Dictionary
Etching is the art that understands that the only way to reach knowledge is to suffer the opposite. Like the whalers on board Pequod, we must cross the line.
Dan Beachy-Quick
Dan Beachy-Quick is soon to begin teaching in the MFA Writing Program at Colorado State University. He is the author of three books of poetry: North True South Bright, Spell, and Mulberry. The book from which these essays are taken, A Whaler's Dictionary, will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2008.