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David Biespiel is president and writer-in-residence at The Attic Writers' Workshop.
List of contents
Evening Watch
1
Genesis 12
Poet at Forty
Though Your Sins Be Scarlet
The Ex-Lovers Close Down the Hawthorne Boulevard
Bars on the 1000th Night of the War
Embouchure
Kohain
The Sleeping Beauty
Dover Butch
Citizen Dave
Tale Bearer
2
Mississippi God Damn
Richard Hugo
Old Adam Outside the Wall of Eden
Genesis 27
Overcast
William Clark's Sonnets
Ezra Pound
Bad Marriages
Luke's Ukulele
P.O.E.M.
Mass Man
3
The Husband's Tale
The Wife's Tale
The Wife's Tale (II)
The Crooner
Prudery
Lust
A Cloud of Crows
Engine Man
Little Crow
Rag and Bone Man
4
Man and Wife
Bloom and Decay
The Hummingbird
Bathsheba
Psalm 51
The Green Bed
Banished
Marvel
Secret
Ovid in Exile
Dissolution in Winter
O'Bryant Square
The Theory of Hats
Acknowledgments
About the Poet
A Note on the Type
About the author
David Biespiel is a poet, literary critic, columnist, and contributing writer at the
American Poetry Review, the
New Republic, the
New York Times, Slate, Poetry, Politico, and
The Rumpus, among other publications. He is the author of ten books, most recently
The Education of a Young Poet, named by Poets & Writers as a Best Book for Writers;
A Long High Whistle, which received the 2016 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction; and
The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the 2011 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. He was a 2018 National Book Critics Circle Finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, and Wake Forest University, in addition to other colleges and universities. He is Poet in Residence at Oregon State University and president of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters.
Summary
A collection of contemporary poetry showcasing a 'true poetic innovator' at the very top of his form
