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
Northwest Poetry Series, and as always he is the master of the long
line, his words strung across its reach as tightly as beads. But
new poems in this book explore the intimacies of the shorter line
as well and display Biespiel's formal inventiveness and emotional
range. The Book of Men and Women addresses our time and human
condition in ways both domestic and global. The first section of
the book is filled with the wonderful agitation of spell-making
language. The poems are connected to the social and historical
world, and yet at the same time, they prepare us for the mythic
story about men and women that is promised in the book's title. The
second section is more formally restrained and as such imbues the
speaker with the distinction and melancholy gravitas that
characterize the collection. We see this in the remarkable and
fully imagined tour de force, "William Clark's Sonnets." The book
concludes with a series of autobiographical poems that confront the
frailties of love and desire with unflinching intimacy and
gratitude. These last poems, composed during an intense three-month
period of writing, as well as the other poems in this remarkable
volume, showcase Biespiel at the very top of his form.
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