{"product_id":"the-book-of-men-and-women-9780295989143","title":"The Book of Men and Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of a \"Pacific Northwest Poetry Series\", this book explores the intimacies of the shorter line as well and displays the author's formal inventiveness and emotional range. It addresses our time and human condition in ways both domestic and global.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Biespiel is a true poetic innovator.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * The Portland Mercury *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Chelsea *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Biespiel] writes with a belief in the redemptive powers of poetry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When David Biespiel tempers his 'bared teeth' voice with a commitment to the things, and not just the atmospheres, of this world, he can register sharp portraits of people, in relationships and alone, in all their bitter, beautiful want.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Poetry Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Biespiel's debut collection is sustained by a search for transcendent, intuitive truths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Publisher's Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In his book about regret, longing, and loss, Biespiel explores the intricacies of relationships between men and women in settings both real and imaginary.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * The Poetry Foundation *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvening Watch\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e Genesis 12 \u003cbr\u003e Poet at Forty \u003cbr\u003e Though Your Sins Be Scarlet \u003cbr\u003e The Ex-Lovers Close Down the Hawthorne Boulevard\u003cbr\u003e Bars on the 1000th Night of the War\u003cbr\u003e Embouchure\u003cbr\u003e Kohain \u003cbr\u003e The Sleeping Beauty \u003cbr\u003e Dover Butch \u003cbr\u003e Citizen Dave \u003cbr\u003e Tale Bearer \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2\u003cbr\u003e Mississippi God Damn \u003cbr\u003e Richard Hugo\u003cbr\u003e Old Adam Outside the Wall of Eden \u003cbr\u003e Genesis 27 \u003cbr\u003e Overcast \u003cbr\u003e William Clark’s Sonnets \u003cbr\u003e Ezra Pound \u003cbr\u003e Bad Marriages \u003cbr\u003e Luke’s Ukulele\u003cbr\u003e P.O.E.M. \u003cbr\u003e Mass Man \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3\u003cbr\u003e The Husband’s Tale\u003cbr\u003e The Wife’s Tale \u003cbr\u003e The Wife’s Tale (II) \u003cbr\u003e The Crooner\u003cbr\u003e Prudery \u003cbr\u003e Lust \u003cbr\u003e A Cloud of Crows \u003cbr\u003e Engine Man \u003cbr\u003e Little Crow \u003cbr\u003e Rag and Bone Man \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4\u003cbr\u003e Man and Wife \u003cbr\u003e Bloom and Decay \u003cbr\u003e The Hummingbird \u003cbr\u003e Bathsheba \u003cbr\u003e Psalm 51 \u003cbr\u003e The Green Bed \u003cbr\u003e Banished \u003cbr\u003e Marvel \u003cbr\u003e Secret \u003cbr\u003e Ovid in Exile \u003cbr\u003e Dissolution in Winter \u003cbr\u003e O’Bryant Square \u003cbr\u003e The Theory of Hats \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Poet \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Note on the Type\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524698644823,"sku":"9780295989143","price":91.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295989143.jpg?v=1731857793","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-book-of-men-and-women-9780295989143","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}