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

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

- 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

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

- 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

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

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 out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet o…

- David Biespiel