A PLACE OF EXODUS: HOME, MEMORY, AND TEXAS
By DAVID BIESPIEL
The subject of this multiform text is acclaimed poet David Biespiel’s Jewish upbringing in Texas and the question that haunts him as an adult: Can he ever really leave home? A 2019 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Balakian award and a past Stegner Fellow, Biespiel is literary nonfiction that transgresses genres, crossing into poetry, memoir, and critical theory.
