 Republic Café is the graceful and moving work of a poet at the top of his game.It should be part of your permanent library.” "Biespiel's finest book of poems to date," says David Baker, "Republic Café builds on Biespiel's strengths as a lyric poet with a social conscience, a latter-day Romantic in a skeptical time.Republic Café is both personal and political, much in the manner of its evident forebear, Walt Whitman.