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David Biespiel
A beautifully rendered memoir about creative beginnings in the vein of Umberto Eco’s classic Confessions of a Young Novelist.
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Part of a Pacific Northwest Poetry Series , this book explores the intimacies of the shorter line as well and displays the author’s formal inventiveness and emotional range. It addresses…
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Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Jewish Studies. Memoir. Are we ever done leaving home? Acclaimed poet and memoirist David Biespiel tells the story of the rise and fall of his Jewish boyhood…
The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the…
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Rolling out across the page like darkly luminous highways, the author’s innovative, nine-line American sonnets promise adventure, offering a variant on the sonnet form that is both lyric and dramatic…
A novel about the tensions between ambition and faith, duty and desire, art and life - and about those whose lives must live with the consequences of choosing one over…
A collection of contemporary poetry showcasing a ‘true poetic innovator’ at the very top of his form
Roving from the old Confederacy of Biespiel’s native South to Portland, Oregon, this book explores the wildness of the Northwest, the avenues of Washington, DC, the coal fields of West…
This is a meditative, poetic journal about love during a time of violence. The book is a tally of what appears and disappears in every moment. Mindful of epigenetic experience…
