{"product_id":"republic-cafzs-9780295744537","title":"Republic Café","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by Alain Resnais's \u003ci\u003eHiroshima mon amour\u003c\/i\u003e, and sharing the spirit of Tomas Transtromer's \u003ci\u003eBaltics\u003c\/i\u003e and Yehuda Amichai's \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRepublic Café\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA single sequence, arranged in fifty-four numbered sections, \u003ci\u003eRepublic Café\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Biespiel\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, critic, memoirist, and contributing to writer to \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolitico\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Education of a Young Poet\u003c\/i\u003e. He has previously published three books in the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series: \u003ci\u003eWild Civility\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Men and Women\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCharming Gardeners\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51260162081042,"sku":"9780295744537","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f675aef8-20c5-4f75-8c63-5abc9d077669.jpg?v=1746638009","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/republic-cafzs-9780295744537","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}