{"product_id":"9780295806792","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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120418373872,"sku":"9780295806792","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780295806792_p0.jpg?v=1763683533","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780295806792","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}