“Therapon is an exquisitely composed collaboration between Dan Beachy-Quick and Bruce Bond, a continuous thread of 12-13 line poems that defy any attempt at knowing who wrote what. Therapon is a journey, a song, a looping narrative, an exploration into spirit and word, and it exposes all our failures to find peace and redemption. Etymologically, ‘therapon’ means ‘chamber’ in Ancient Greek. It also means a person whose job/role is an attendant, a companion of lower rank, an aid, a slave, a servant who has committed (or was committed) to be willing to sacrifice all for a human master or supernatural deity. One thinks of The Iliad, one thinks of the global history of slavery, and one thinks of how horribly religion and dogma have failed us, and how fiercely the yearning for a spiritual life lives on. One thinks of how ‘therapy’ derives, also, from the roots of ‘therapon,’ and then one becomes very sad, and a bit bemused. Therapon is also an examination of how language is inadequate to the human and the human spirit. A mature, serious work, Therapon reminds us that humans are beasts capable of immense violence. Why can’t we evolve? And yet, like the animals, we also love, we also seek.”
—Gillian Conoley

“This maze of poem we are led through—or not led, encouraged through—offers many threads to follow: ‘one day a needle drags   a filament / that in time dissolves  like   a sun on its passage.’ That two authors can so coordinate their views of a world as to produce such lovely lyricism is itself a wonder, but that the resulting vision becomes, as binocular viewing always engenders, both multi-dimensional and convincing, is a continual gift continually opening before us. More than therapeutic, the book is a delight and a discovery.”
—Bin Ramke, author of Earth on Earth