{"product_id":"wild-civility-9780295983516","title":"Wild Civility","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRolling 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eWild Civility\u003c\/i\u003e] 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Rain Taxi Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePagan\u003cbr\u003e Hallucination\u003cbr\u003e Under a Blossoming Plum Tree\u003cbr\u003e French Kiss\u003cbr\u003e Poets\u003cbr\u003e Dear Justice\u003cbr\u003e Explication de Texte\u003cbr\u003e Faith\u003cbr\u003e Gentrification\u003cbr\u003e After the Wedding\u003cbr\u003e Drunks\u003cbr\u003e Shoulders\u003cbr\u003e Brawls\u003cbr\u003e Sangria\u003cbr\u003e Xerxes\u003cbr\u003e Prayer\u003cbr\u003e Starlings\u003cbr\u003e Exile\u003cbr\u003e Godhood\u003cbr\u003e Ferdinand Magellan\u003cbr\u003e Parties\u003cbr\u003e Spiritual Guy\u003cbr\u003e Brusque\u003cbr\u003e Ars Poetica\u003cbr\u003e Kazoo\u003cbr\u003e Civilization in the Next War\u003cbr\u003e Home\u003cbr\u003e Amichai 1924-2000\u003cbr\u003e Hermes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e About the Poet\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524694942039,"sku":"9780295983516","price":91.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295983516.jpg?v=1731857782","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wild-civility-9780295983516","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}