![]() | Republic Café 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. David Biespiel is a poet, critic, memoirist, and contributing to writer to American Poetry Review , New Republic , the New York Times , Poetry , Politico , The Rumpus , and Slate . He is poet-in-residence at Oregon State University, faculty member in the Rainier Writers Workshop, and president of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters. He has received NEA and Lannan fellowships and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Award. His most recent book is The Education of a Young Poet . He has previously published three books in the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series: Wild Civility , The Book of Men and Women , and Charming Gardeners . |
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