by David Biespiel
Forward by Stanley Plumly
New Poets of America Series
The poetry of David
Biespiel is lyrical and sensual, celebrating the physical facts
and pleasures of this world. Many of these poems find their focus
in the rural Southwest of Oklahoma and Texas where Biespiel grew
up, and on the beaches and coasts of the Pacific Northwest where
the author now lives. Bayous and lilacs, sanderlings and willows,
and young lovers on a diving platform at 3 a.m., become, in Shattering
Air, emblems for the correspondence between the natural world
and the human spirit. This is David Biespiel's first poetry collection.
Self-portrait as Maniac
Stiff
elbow, crick-neck,
I awake
in the fine state.
Stars
wide-eye the yonder,
Fog
like sheep's yoke,
Night
flushes blood-
Complaints
back
Into
dew. I don't
Conspire
with air
Or
wind or sand.
I've
stepped aside,
My
mind like rain.
God,
how will I find the stones
Whittled
with sun
And
tesseried on the hill
That
are motionless as sheep?
They're
singing laments.
I must
nuzzle with them.
©BOA
Editions, Ltd 1996
Available editions:
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Cloth
ISBN: 1-880238-34-9
Price: $20.00
Publishing Date: January 1996
Paperback
ISBN: 1-880238-35-7
Price: $12.50
Publishing Date: January 1996
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