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The education of a young poet / David Biespiel.
LIBRA PS3552.I374 Z46 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biespiel, David, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biespiel, David, 1964-.
- Biespiel, David.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Authorship.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 176 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- The Education of a Young Poet is David Biespiel's moving account of his awakening to writing and the language that can shape a life. Exploring the original source of his creative impulse--a great-grandfather who traveled alone from Ukraine to America in 1910, eventually settling as a rag peddler in the tiny town of Elma, Iowa--through the generations that followed, Biespiel tracks his childhood in Texas and his university days in the northeast, led along by the "pattern and random bursts that make up a life."
- Contents:
- Elma
- Pedagogy of the oppressed
- Pretending not to pretend
- Old friends
- Against our will
- From the earth to the stars
- Nighthawks
- Drinks
- Texas roses
- Defeat
- Not that town
- Primal talk
- The dugout
- Something's happening out there
- The pale Vermont
- The suit.
- ISBN:
- 9781619029934
- 1619029936
- OCLC:
- 995162327
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