Background
Biespiel, David was born on February 18, 1964 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Stephen Edwin Biespiel and Rosalyn Borg.
(David Biespiel’s long poetic lines crackle with rhythmic ...)
David Biespiel’s 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. "I’ve come to imagine the nine-line sonnet to be like one of those classic Thunderbirds," says Biespiel, "something distinctly American: wide, roomy, and with a robust engine." The vastly varied voices within the poems are united by a wonderfully limber diction. Using with revelatory precision the vocabularies of history, science, art, sport, philosophy, religion, literature, government, and domestic life, Biespiel has crafted a hip, melodic, elastic language that travels the registers of expression: lush and coarse, gaudy and austere, pliant and rigidly tough. The civility of the poems is the form; the wildness is the bristling energy of the language. Passionate, resilient, rich with wit and word play, these poems affirm David Biespiel’s increasing stature as a poet of remarkable accomplishment and promise.
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Biespiel, David was born on February 18, 1964 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Stephen Edwin Biespiel and Rosalyn Borg.
Bachelor, Boston University, 1986. Master of Fine Arts, University Maryland, 1986.
Adjunct professor University Maryland, College Park, 1989-1991, Mount Vernon College, Washington, 1992, George Washington University, Washington, 1992. Richard H. Thornton writer in residence Lynchburg (Virginia) College, 1993. Adjunct professor Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1995.
Poet-in-residence The Attic, Portland, Oregon, since 1999. Adjunct professor, Oregon State University, since 2000, Portland State University, since 2001.
(David Biespiel’s long poetic lines crackle with rhythmic ...)
Married Tricia Snell, May 16, 1987. 1 child, Lucas.