{"title":"David Biespiel","description":"David Biespiel was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1964 and grew up in Houston, Texas. He has degrees from Boston University and the University of Maryland. A former NCAA scholarship diver who competed in the United States National Diving Championships, he continues to coach national, international and Olympic-caliber divers. The recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Individual Artist Award in Poetry from the Maryland Arts Council and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Biespiel has taught at several colleges, most recently at Stanford University. He now lives in Portland, Oregon.","products":[{"product_id":"shattering-air","title":"Shattering Air","description":"\u003ch4\u003eAvailable in limited quantity\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poetry of David Biespiel is lyrical and sensual, celebrating the physical facts and pleasures of this world. Many of these poems find their focus in the rural Southwest of Oklahoma and Texas where Biespiel grew up, and on the beaches and coasts of the Pacific Northwest where the author now lives. Bayous and lilacs, sanderlings and willows, and young lovers on a diving platform at 3 a.m., become, in \u003cem\u003eShattering Air\u003c\/em\u003e, emblems for the correspondence between the natural world and the human spirit. This is David Biespiel's first poetry collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e This is a first edition, first printing. Book Condition: Fine. This copy has been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd., since its publication. Unread. Ideal collector's copy. Actual cover design may vary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for the collection\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The imagination in David Biespiel's \u003cem\u003eShattering Air\u003c\/em\u003e is as luminous as the hear is generous.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Stanley Plumly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802361285,"sku":"9781880238356","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/SHATTERING_AIR.jpg?v=1527683344"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/biesp_2.gif?v=1449014633","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/david-biespiel.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}