The Thinking Root : The Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy Paperback / softback

by Dan Beachy-Quick

Part of the Seedbank series

Paperback / softback

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Acclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and thinking, as a way of living meaningfully in the world. Â â€œWe have lost our sense of thinking as the experience that keeps us in the world,â€ writes Beachy-Quick, and the figures rendered in The Thinking Rootâ€”Heraclitus, Anaximander, Empedocles, Parmenides, and othersâ€”are among the first examples we have in Western civilization of thinkers who used writing as to record their impressions of a world where intuition and observation, and spirit and nature, have yet to be estranged.

In these pages, we find clear-eyed ideas searching for shapes and forms with which to order the world, and to reveal our life in flux. Â Drawn from â€œwords that think,â€ these ancient Greek texts are fresh and alive in the hands of Beachy-Quick, who translates with the empathy of one who knows that â€œa word is its own form of life.â€ In aphorisms, axioms, vignettes, and anecdotes, these first theories of the world articulate a relationship to the world that precedes our story of its making, a world where â€œthe beginning and the end are in common.â€Â A remarkable collection from one of our most accomplished poets, The Thinking Root renders a primary apprehension of life amidst life, a vision that echoes our gaze upon the stars.