I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is what they called me - very funny. I didn't take offense. I just thought, This is exactly where I want to be. The pace was different. Houston is a sprawling city. Boston is just crammed into the size of a postage stamp.
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 wan… - 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 own writing to failure. I wan…
- David Biespiel
Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civili… - David Biespiel
Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civili…
I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is what they called me - very funn… - David Biespiel
I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is what they called me - very funn…
American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. - David Biespiel
American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
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 the world as poets, as a sort of poet o… - 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 out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet o…
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial … - David Biespiel
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial …
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. And… - 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 observed thing. And…
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry. - David Biespiel
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. - David Biespiel
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.
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