In Beautiful Is the World, David Biespiel spans three decades of lyric intensity, tracing the intimate cartography of memory, place, and inheritance. These poems move between the Pacific Northwest's rain-soaked landscapes and the haunted reaches of Jewish ancestry, between the urgent present and history's long shadows. Biespiel's lines shimmer with atmospheric precision -- "star-this, star-that, settled into rest" -- while confronting mortality, brotherhood, and the stubborn persistence of the past. From elegiac meditations to sprawling epistolary sequences, this New and Selected volume showcases a poet of remarkable range: tender and unflinching, rooted in American soil yet alive to exile's ancient grief.
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