{"product_id":"wild-civility-9780295983523","title":"Wild Civility","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid 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 \"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. \"I've come to imagine the nine-line sonnet to be like one of those classic Thunderbirds,\" says Biespiel, \"something distinctly American: wide, roomy, and with a robust engine.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe vastly varied voices within the poems are united by a wonderfully limber diction. Using with revelatory precision the vocabularies of history, science, art, sport, philosophy, religion, literature, government, and domestic life, Biespiel has crafted a hip, melodic, elastic language that travels the registers of expression: lush and coarse, gaudy and austere, pliant and rigidly tough. The civility of the poems is the form; the wildness is the bristling energy of the language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePassionate, resilient, rich with wit and word play, these poems affirm David Biespiel's increasing stature as a poet of remarkable accomplishment and promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Biespiel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Pacific Northwest Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.12w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295983523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Oregon Book Awards - Finalist","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45199044870281,"sku":"9780295983523","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0c638b79-d87f-4ca5-83cc-9b25cf1f7c01.jpg?v=1769494111","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/wild-civility-9780295983523","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}