D. Biespiel - A LONG HIGH WHISTLE - Paperback CURSIVE LUTES “In Rick Barot’s hands every

“In Rick Barot’s hands every poem casts at least two luminous shadows

Shanks Kaurin

Cress finally has her freedom

" --Eric Foner

D. Biespiel - A LONG HIGH WHISTLE - Paperback CURSIVE LUTES “In Rick Barot’s hands everyDavid Biespiel, MFA Author Winner of the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction, 2016. Over the course of ten years, poet and critic David Biespiel published a brief, dazzling essay on poetry every month in what became the longest running newspaper column on poetry in the United States. Collected here for the first time, these enormously popular essays, many of which have been revised and expanded, offer a fresh and refreshing approach to the