Beautiful Is the World: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2026 | David Biespiel | Poetry

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Beautiful Is the World: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2026, David Biespiel

$25.00

ISBN: 978-1-968274-10-8

Fine Softcover; 80+ pages; 5.25”x7.5”

Publication Date: September 22, 2026

Summary

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.

Author

David Biespiel is a poet, novelist, critic, memoirist, and painter. The author of over ten books, he is a contributor to The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Lannan fellowship, two Oregon Book Awards, and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian award. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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