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.

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.