A whaler's dictionary
By: Dan Beachy-Quick.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781571313096
Subjects: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891; Philosophy in literature
Description: "Taking its inspiration - and, for that matter, its form - from Ishmael's abandoned "Cetological Dictionary" in Moby-Dick, this extraordinary, highly original work brings meditations on myth, representation, language, nature, consciousness, and notions of spiritual quest into constantly new relations. From "Accuracy" to "Wound," from "Adam" to "Void," and from "Babel" to "Silence," the cross-referential, highly associative entries make up an utterly singular work of art."--Jacket.