Charming gardeners : poems / by David Biespiel ; Ryan Diaz, design.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biespiel, David, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Diaz, Ryan, designer.

Series:

Pacific Northwest poetry series.

Pacific Northwest Poetry Series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The formally nuanced and wise epistolary poems in David Biespiel’s new collection are grounded in friendship, camaraderie, and the vulnerability and boldness that defines America.Roving from the old Confederacy of Biespiel's native South to Portland, Oregon, Charming Gardeners explores the wildness of the Northwest, the avenues of Washington, D.C., the coal fields of West Virginia, and an endless stretch of airplanes and hotel rooms from New York to Texas to California.These poems explore the “insistent murmurs” of memory and the emotional connections between individuals and history, as well as the bonds of brotherhood, the ghosts of America’s wars, and the vibrancy of love, sex, and intimacy. We are offered poems addressed to family, friends, poets, and political rivals - all in a masterful idiom Robert Pinsky has called Biespiel’s “own original grand style.”I should stop back thereAnd stand on both feet in the grazing sunlightAnd hear this chorus of America singing.But I am so afraid of the testament of the delivered.from “TO __________ FROM THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN WILLIAMSON, WEST VIRGINIA

Contents:

""Contents""; ""To _____ from the Jewish Cemetery in Williamson, West Virginia""; ""Part 1""; ""To Wendy from Yellow Hickory""; ""To Plumly from Lummi Island""; ""To Hugo from SoDo""; ""To Biespiel from Schul""; ""To Wilman from Walla Walla""; ""To Keller from Skamania Lodge""; ""To Ruest from Winston-Salem""; ""To Gifford from Kiowa County""; ""Part 2""; ""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""""Part 3""; ""To Smith from Northhampton""; ""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""; ""Postscript""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295805887

0295805889

OCLC:

883098078