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The third volume in the Pacific Northwest Poetry series features the work of Oregon poet David Biespiel

Table of Contents

Preface

Pagan

Hallucination

Under a Blossoming Plum Tree

French Kiss

Poets

Dear Justice

Explication de Texte

Faith

Gentrification

After the Wedding

Drunks

Shoulders

Brawls

Sangria

Xerxes

Prayer

Starlings

Exile

Godhood

Ferdinand Magellan

Parties

Spiritual Guy

Brusque

Ars Poetica

Kazoo

Civilization in the Next War

Home

Amichai 1924-2000

Hermes

Acknowledgments

About the Poet

About the Author

David Biespiel teaches English at Oregon State University and is Writer in Residence at The Attic in Portland, Oregon. His honors include a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He is the author of Shattering Air.

Reviews

"Like microprocessors, the poems in Wild Civility deliver an almost incalculable amount of information instantaneously. As a result, they demonstrate the pure and powerful recombinant energy of language that is the essence of lyric poetry."--Michael Collier, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.