[05/01/25] Dahlen, Beverly: Something/Nothing

Further Other Book Works, paperback

Publication Date: May 1, 2025

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A selection of essays and talks spanning Beverly Dahlen's career, with an introduction by Jocelyn Saidenberg, an afterword by Susan Gevirtz, and a selected bibliography. Edited by Julia Drescher.

"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