{"id":13495,"date":"2020-02-01T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T16:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/?p=13495"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:57:43","slug":"painted-daydreams-accents-publishing-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/01\/painted-daydreams-accents-publishing-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Daydreams (Accents Publishing, 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poet B. Elizabeth Beck answers questions about Painted Daydreams (Accents Publishing, 2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tell us the story of your Accents Publishing book.<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n

This book took ten years to research and write. I have studied and taught Art History for years, so this was a natural book for me to write. Art is my passion. To combine everything I love was a joy.<\/p>\n

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Do you still like it? Why or why not?<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n

I do still like it and am especially proud of the research notes included at the back of the book. Of course, I cannot take credit for the perfect formatting of those notes. Jay McCoy is such a good friend. He organized that work for me because he\u2019s kind and generous and knows how to do these things correctly”.<\/p>\n

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What is the highest praise you\u2019ve received for it?<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n

Matt Hart, a professor at the Art Academy in Cincinnati called my poems, \u201cformally diverse and kaleidoscopically (allusionistically!) rich ekphrastic poems.\u201d I consider that high praise!<\/p>\n

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What didn\u2019t make it in the book?<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n

Interestingly, every poem that isn\u2019t in this book didn\u2019t make it. What I mean is that I wrote this collection while I was writing my first two books which were NOT art history books.\u00a0Painted Daydreams<\/i>\u00a0was my escape while I was writing about very difficult poems. This was my book of joy.<\/p>\n

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Is there a poem from the book you\u2019d like to share with the readers of the Accents blog?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In ancient Greece, Sophists<\/b><\/p>\n

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measure the existence of truth<\/p>\n

as individual not universal; not absolute<\/p>\n

Aristotle\u2019s father and my grandfather<\/p>\n

both physicians, yet Plato\u2019s student blessed<\/p>\n

with orphanage, blasphemous words<\/p>\n

unless\u00a0spoken by an insignificant girl.<\/p>\n

I do not have the Oedipus privilege of gouging<\/p>\n

my eyes I need to read Aristotle\u2019s writings<\/p>\n

on nature making him the world\u2019s first scientist<\/p>\n

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when I am the last to understand and only learned<\/p>\n

through Whitman\u2019s\u00a0<\/i>leaves of grass<\/i>\u00a0transcendental<\/p>\n

truth. I revere martyrs like Socrates executed<\/p>\n

for corrupting youth and Holden Caulfield whose<\/p>\n

merry-go-round\u00a0Odyssean\u00a0journey searching<\/p>\n

an oracle in Phoebe futile; although the sentiment<\/p>\n

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appreciated as I practice Plato\u2019s philosophy<\/p>\n

of aesthetics, a branch he invented I teach<\/p>\n

as an excuse to day dream in paintings<\/p>\n

drenched in exuberance Van Gogh graces<\/p>\n

the pages of the art history text I leaf ahead<\/p>\n

(abandon Doric, Ionic, Corinthian) to look<\/p>\n

at starry nights and potato eaters, again.<\/p>\n

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How did you arrive at the title?<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n

The title evolved from what I call Van Gogh\u2019s paintings. I have been daydreaming in his art since I was seven years old.<\/p>\n

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Do you have a favorite Accents Publishing book (other than yours) and if so, which one?<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n

My favorite Accent Publishing book is \u201cThe Occupation\u201d by Jay McCoy. His poems are stunningly brilliant.<\/p>\n

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What would you like to see Accents do going forward?<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n

Please continue to publish these beautiful books. Most importantly, please continue fostering writers. Without Poezia, I would never have published. I have learned so much about writing from being part of the Accents Publishing family.<\/p>\n

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What are you working on now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have just finished writing a novel about a young man named Sam who meets a group of kids and goes on tour with Phish. The working title is \u201cSummer Tour\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Share a poem, or at least a sentence from your new writing.<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n

“We were a new generation of seekers, intent in preserving the beauty of freedom from the Grateful Dead culture into a new evolution. Where it would lead was yet to be found, a fact that incited pure adrenaline; anticipation to join in what would be a remarkable slice of reality shaped between a guitar, bass, keys and drums performed by four ordinary dudes with extraordinary ideas. The fact that this tribe had found me and dragged me into this journey seemed destined. I couldn\u2019t wait to swim among the sea of thousands of other like-minded people. I was ready for all things.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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