Biespiel, D. - WILD CIVILITY (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series) - Paperback BOTTOMS the prototypical Great Lakes port

the prototypical Great Lakes port city built by immigrants like her great-grandfather Big Petar

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Beckert not only charts the expansion of cotton capitalism

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Biespiel, D. - WILD CIVILITY (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series) - Paperback BOTTOMS the prototypical Great Lakes portDavid Biespiel, MFA Author "David Biespiels long poetic lines crackle with rhythmic energy and a jazzy, bittersweet richness of language. Rolling out across the page like darkly luminous highways, his innovative, nine line "American sonnets" promise adventure, offering a variant on the sonnet form that is both lyric and dramatic and bringing his masterful formal inventiveness to free verse. "Ive come to imagine the nine line sonnet to be like one of