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

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

- 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

I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally a…

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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…

- 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…

- 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