David Biespiel's energetic language, so varied and musical and precise, is quite unmatched by that of other contemporary poets. "The Book of Men and Women" is his second collection in the Pacific Nort
Winner of the Oregon Book Award's Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry The poems in this remarkable volume showcase Biespiel's formal inventiveness and emotional range. "The Book of Men and Women" addresses
David Biespiel's long poetic lines crackle with rhythmic energy and a jazzy, bittersweet richness of language. Rolling out across the page like darkly luminous highways, his innovative, nine-line "Ame
