the quotidian is an 80 page artists’ POD book, printed by Blurb for a limited time only.

“It’s a rare cloudy day in Florida with intermittent rain.  This was the perfect afternoon to hunker down inside to preview your book.  Thanks for sharing.   I think the work is beautiful.  Dupuy’s poetry and Beyt’s photographs really do work well together so I can see why you have both continued to partner on this project.  I think that the timing might be right with this publication, as it seems to me that people are drawn to introspection lately, maybe trying to find moral value during this crashing aftermath of years of excess.”

Melinda Robbins Conlon, college administrator

“Thank you for sharing an advance look at your poetry along with photographs. I found both poems and photos moving  and meaningful.  There’s a mixture of nostalgia and hard-edged realism in the poems that I appreciate.”

Fr. Steve Tokarski, pastor of St. Pius X Church, Billings, Montana

“Thank you for sending me the quotidian — what an amazing book of poems juxtapositioned to photographs.  It goes without saying Dupuy is a first rate poet, able to stand on his own, but the pairing with pictures adds much to the book.  As true about the poetry being excellent, so touching with emotion, so it is with Beyt’s photographs.  I love black and white photographs, and he is master of his trade.”

Jan Hensley, photographer, Greensboro, North Carolina

Word and image, sound and light, (and their opposites, silence and darkness)—the subtle, surprising conjunctions of these elements provide the special rewards of this intimate collection of poems and photographs by two artists, Edward Dupuy and Gene Beyt.

Dupuy is the poet, Beyt the photographer. But by the end of the volume, the reader might wonder if the labels can be so exclusively applied. The collaborators’ act of pairing specific images with specific poems is itself poetic, deriving not from any need for literal illustration but from something far more subtle, the desire to suggest a shared state of mind or soul.

From the introduction by Jay Tolson