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Pilgrims & Beggars

Limited Edition

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This is the book in which David Biespiel first introduced his innovative, 9-line American sonnets.

 

These poems roll out across the page like darkly luminous highways, and bring his masterful formal inventiveness to free verse. 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.

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"In his smart and surprising poems, David Biespiel circumnavigates the English language with wit and nerve. His short, sophisticated poems dance to chewy and diverse vocabularies. This Magical Mystery Tour dazzles, but always in the service of genuine experience, emotion, and reflection."

— Judith Taylor

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Pilgrims & Beggars

Portlandia Books

2002

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