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 identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche.
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…
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 …
American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. - David Biespiel
American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
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…
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.
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.
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 that I know of who writes in Eng… - 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, no poet that I know of who writes in Eng…
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. - David Biespiel
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
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