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Republic Cafe
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- Book Synopsis
- Inspired by Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour, and sharing the spirit of Tomas Transtromer's Baltics and Yehuda Amichai's Time, Republic Café is a meditation on love during a time of violence, and a tally of what appears and disappears in every moment. Mindful of epigenetic experience as our bodies become living vessels for history's tragedies, David Biespiel praises not only the essentialness of our human memory, but also the sanctity of our flawed, human forgetting. A single sequence, arranged in fifty-four numbered sections, Republic Café details the experience of lovers in Portland, Oregon, on the eve and days following September 11, 2001. To touch a loved one's bare skin, even in the midst of great tragedy, is simultaneously an act of remembering and forgetting. This is a tale of love and darkness, a magical portrait of the writer as a moral and imaginative participant in the political life of his nation.
- About The Author
- David Biespiel is a poet, literary critic, columnist, and contributing writer at the American Poetry Review, the New Republic, the New York Times, Slate, Poetry, Politico, and The Rumpus, among other publications. He is the author of ten books, most recently The Education of a Young Poet, named by Poets & Writers as a Best Book for Writers; A Long High Whistle, which received the 2016 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction; and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the 2011 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. He was a 2018 National Book Critics Circle Finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, and Wake Forest University, in addition to other colleges and universities. He is Poet in Residence at Oregon State University and president of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780295744537
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press, (01 February 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 96
- Weight
- 295 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 18 mm
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