Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand,… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is what they… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing.… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my own writing… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
