Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civilian work. Same with film, architecture, music, sports. That's one tributary of the autobiography. — 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 to failure. I want to fail. I want to go to a place where I don't… — 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
There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
