David Biespiel

Charming Gardeners

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Produktbeschreibung

David Biespiel is the author of four collections of poetry, including Wild Civility and The Book of Men and Women. He also contributed to Politico from 2008 to 2012.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780295994550
• ISBN-10: 029599455X
• Artikelnr.: 41050343

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

To from the Jewish Cemetery in Williamson, West Virginia
To Wendy from Yellow Hickory
To Plumly from Lummi Island
To Hugo from SoDo
To Biespiel from Schul
To Wiman from Walla Walla
To Keller from Skamania Lodge
To Ruest from Winston-Salem
To Gifford from Kiowa County
To Bierds from the Cannery Pier Hotel
To Ansel from the Hotel Andra
To Di Piero from Dufur
To Farnsworth from Bar Avignon
To Collier from United Flight 304
To Buckley from Berkeley
To Conda from Anaconda
To Wendy from the Gershwin Hotel
To Smith from Northampton
To Snyder from the Blue Scorcher Café
To Sylvester from Terminal B
To Gifford from United Flight 308
To C. D. from D.C.
To Unrau from Union
To Lenney from the Greenbrier Hotel
To Biespiel from United Flight 1037
To Luke from United Flight 251
To Wendy from the Crow's Nest
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