David Biespiel

Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and…

— David Biespiel

I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is…

— David Biespiel

A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the…

— David Biespiel

Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring…

— David Biespiel

I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover…

— David Biespiel

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

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

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

— David Biespiel

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

— David Biespiel

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

— David Biespiel

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

— David Biespiel

My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my…

— David Biespiel

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