LONG JOURNEY (Signed) Contemporary Northwest Poets

Biespiel, David (Edit.)

ISBN 10: 0870710982 / ISBN 13: 9780870710988

Published by Oregon State, Corvallis, 2006, 2006

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Glossy pictorial wraps. 329pp. Signed & dated by Biespiel. Features "the work of poets from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana." Fine, as new. Seller Inventory # 0611017

Bibliographic Details

Title: LONG JOURNEY (Signed) Contemporary Northwest...

Publisher: Oregon State, Corvallis, 2006

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Long Journey showcases work by over eighty of the Pacific Northwest's leading poets. Of the nearly two hundred poems collected in this remarkable anthology--the first of its kind for the Northwest--most are new and previously unpublished, providing readers with a fresh look at the state of contemporary poetry in the region. Featuring poets from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana.

About the Author:

David Biespiel was born in 1964 in Oklahoma and grew up in Harris County, Texas, in Houston. He is the author of A LONG HIGH WHISTLE: SELECTED COLUMNS. He has also written five books of poetry, most recently Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women, which was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, and a book on creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces. He is the editor of the Everyman's Library edition of Poems of the American South and Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets, which received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. He writes the Poetry Wire column for The Rumpus and is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. Among his honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Lannan Fellowship. Since 1999 he has been president of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in Portland with his family.