Wild Civility Paperback / softback
by David Biespiel
Part of the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series series
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David Biespiel’s long poetic lines crackle with rhythmic energy and a jazzy, bittersweet richness of language.
Rolling out across the page like darkly luminous highways, his innovative, nine-line "American sonnets" promise adventure, offering a variant on the sonnet form that is both lyric and dramatic and bringing his masterful formal inventiveness to free verse. "I’ve come to imagine the nine-line sonnet to be like one of those classic Thunderbirds," says Biespiel, "something distinctly American: wide, roomy, and with a robust engine."The vastly varied voices within the poems are united by a wonderfully limber diction.
Using with revelatory precision the vocabularies of history, science, art, sport, philosophy, religion, literature, government, and domestic life, Biespiel has crafted a hip, melodic, elastic language that travels the registers of expression: lush and coarse, gaudy and austere, pliant and rigidly tough.
The civility of the poems is the form; the wildness is the bristling energy of the language. Passionate, resilient, rich with wit and word play, these poems affirm David Biespiel’s increasing stature as a poet of remarkable accomplishment and promise.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:80 pages
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2003
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- ISBN:9780295983523
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:80 pages
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2003
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- ISBN:9780295983523