Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes                       
Heraclitus                                                                    
Xenophanes                                                                 
Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles                        

Dan Beachy-Quick is the translator of The Thinking Root and Stone-Garland. He is also the author of nine collections of poems, three works of creative nonfiction, one novel, and a monograph on the work of John Keats. His work has been a winner of the Colorado Book Award, a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Prize and the PEN/USA Literary Award in Poetry, longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry, and included in the Best American Poetry anthology. The recipient of a Lannan Foundation residency, his work has been supported by the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he serves in the English department and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing.

"From acclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick comes this new addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid translation of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and thinking, as a way of living meaningfully in the world"--