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Shattering Air

Oregon Book Award (Finalist)

Oklahoma Center for the Book Award (Finalist)

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David Biespiel's first book of poems is lyrical and sensual, celebrating the physical facts and pleasures of this world.

 

Many of these poems find their focus in Texas where Biespiel grew up, and on the beaches and coasts of the Pacific Northwest where the author now lives. Bayous and lilacs, sanderlings and willows, and young lovers on a diving platform at 3 a.m., become, in Shattering Air, emblems for the correspondence between the natural world and the human spirit..

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"It's a test of test seamlessness of his art," writes Stanley Plumly in his introduction, "that David Biespiel finds his vitality and subtlety in the commonplace as well as the luminous moment as if the inwardness of an experience were its subject."

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"Sustained by a search for transcendent, intuitive truths."  

— Publishers Weekly

 

"Biespiel's first volume of poems is impressive, particularly for the poet's gift with metaphor."  

— Choice

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"David Biespiel has a gift for transformation. He can make a command sound like an incantation. He can create psalm-like beauty from the repetition of a simple phrase. One must note the instances of raw brilliance."  

— Chelsea

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Poems of quiet grandeur and nobility [that] bring to mind an out-of-the-self Keatsian sensibility. "

— A. V. Christie, The Journal

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Shattering Air

BOA Editions

1996

 

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