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Book SynopsisRolling out across the page like darkly luminous highways, the author's innovative, nine-line "American sonnets" promise adventure, offering a variant on the sonnet form that is both lyric and dramatic and bringing his masterful formal inventiveness to free verse.
Trade Review"[Wild Civility] demonstrates the poet's deft control of line and sentence..Poems such as 'Under a Blossoming Plum Tree' or 'Shoulders' are sparse, free verse lyrics concerned with exterior landscape and quiet observation—smart counterpoints to Biespiel's reinvented sonnets. They allow the reader a moment to breathe, reflect, and appreciate the dynamic personality of Wild Cilivity."
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Table of ContentsPreface
Pagan
Hallucination
Under a Blossoming Plum Tree
French Kiss
Poets
Dear Justice
Explication de Texte
Faith
Gentrification
After the Wedding
Drunks
Shoulders
Brawls
Sangria
Xerxes
Prayer
Starlings
Exile
Godhood
Ferdinand Magellan
Parties
Spiritual Guy
Brusque
Ars Poetica
Kazoo
Civilization in the Next War
Home
Amichai 1924-2000
Hermes
Acknowledgments
About the Poet
