Unbound Edition Press to Publish David Biespiel’s Beautiful Is the World: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2026

Unbound Edition Press today announced it will publish David Biespiel’s latest collection of poetry, Beautiful Is the World: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2026. This will be his 14th book published, writing across poetry, memoir, criticism and fiction. The title is scheduled for publication in September 2026. 

Biespiel is a poet, novelist, critic, memoirist, and painter. 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 and Lannan fellowship. He was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian award. He lives in Portland, Oregon. 

Nate Klug wrote of Biespiel’s Book of Men and Women, “David Biespiel makes poems in the space cleared by the (some would say oppositional) forces of Robert Lowell and John Ashbery. But Biespiel has gifts all his own, the greatest of which is a quirky, alliterative idiom…”

Peter Campion, executive editor at Unbound Edition Press, acquired the title for the house, and is editing the work. He notes: “David Biespiel is a major American poet. He’s rare among poets of his generation for his public reach and resonance. At the same time, his poems show remarkable lyric intensity and render the world with true curiosity.”   

Patrick Davis, publisher and editor in chief at Unbound Edition Press, said, “Biespiel is singular in his command on the page across genres, his poetry standing apart from all other contemporary voices. These selected poems will last and it is our honor to be entrusted with them.”