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Title: Wild Civility by David Biespiel ISBN: 0-295-98352-3 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Wow! Incredible!
Comment: I read this poet's first book, "Shattering Air" (BOA), and little there prepared me for this one. It's an enormous departure, and my first reaction was "Wow! Incredible! Finally, something that breaks the style of decades of garden-variety, flat, tepid, music-less, formless free verse American poetry!" The writing in Biespiel's new book is so vibrant. It's unlike anything out there. Entirely unique and dramatic (though a dictionary is required!). "Wild Civility" rocks with rowdy, tempestous, lyric poems about the poet's hard drinking, hard partying days, his ambivalence toward faith and prayer, and his yearning for home--all in a blazing new form, his invented 9-line "American sonnet." Bold, to say the least (and his Preface at the beginning is even bolder--a must read to understand the dramatic voices he incorporates into his own). The language can be overwhelming, I have to admit, but the poems do what (I think) poems should do--tell the truth and reach deep inside of me.