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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Episode: David Biespiel : The Education of a Young Poet
Description: âBiespielâs supple memoir of becoming a poet will surely inspire other writers to embrace the bodily character of writing & feel the power &, sometimes, the emptiness of the act of writing poetry.ââPublishers Weekly, starred review
âWhether he is writing about poetry, politics, competitive diving, or the glories of great conversation, Biespielâs recurring subject is the tension between freedom & disciplineâbetween the sublime release of our own wildness & the precision that comes only from exquisite self-control. Part memoir, part ars poetica, The Education of a Young Poet is a feast: of language, of memory, & of insights into how one youn...