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 "observed thing" could include remembered thing, fantasized thing, fictionalized thing, recorded thing, trans-altered thing. It's the model that's in front of you or in your brain or your memory or whatever. So you're trying to be precise about what it is you're seeing because it's very unlikely that you're going to be able to depict it as it is.
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…
American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. - David Biespiel
American poetry is a mess. Long live American 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.
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. - David Biespiel
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.
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…
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…
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