A Place of Exodus
David Biespiel
(Author)
Description
Are we ever done leaving home? Acclaimed poet and memoirist David Biespiel tells the story of the rise and fall of his Jewish boyhood in Texas, and his search for the answer to his life's central riddle.
After a near-forty-year exile, Biespiel returns for a day to the world he left behind as a different person. He creates a moving meditation on the meaning of home, uncovering bittersweet realities of age, youth, and family with tenderness and devastating honesty.
Robert Pinsky writes, "In the great American tradition of improvised cultural makings and unmakings, migration and recurrence, David Biespiel unfolds our national quest onto an unexpected terrain: a decidedly Texan and traditionally Jewish neighborhood of Houston. A surprising, heartbreaking and inspiring story."
Product Details
| Publisher | Kelson Books |
| Publish Date | September 01, 2020 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780982783856 |
| Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.2 X 0.7 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
David Biespiel is a poet, memoirist, and literary critic. He is
the author of eleven books, among them Republic Café, The
Education of a Young Poet, The Book of Men and Women, A
Long High Whistle, and Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces.
A contributor to The New Republic, The New Yorker, and
Slate, he has won a number of awards for his writing, including
Lannan Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and
Stegner fellowships, two Oregon Book Awards, the Pacific
Northwest Booksellers Award, and he has been a finalist for
the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Award. He has
taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George
Washington University, and Wake Forest University. He is the
founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters and Poet-in-
Residence at Oregon State University.
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