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    The Education of a young poet / David Biespiel.
    by Biespiel, David, author.
    Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press, 2017.
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    xii, 176 pages ; 22 cm
    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 of Vermont -- The suit.
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    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." His book offers an intimate recollection of how one person forges a life as a writer during extraordinary times. From the Jewish quarter of Houston in the 1970s to bohemian boston in the 1980s, from Russia's Pale of Settlement to a farming village in Vermont, Biespiel remains alert to the magic of possibilities - ancestral journeys, hash parties, political rallies, family connections, uncertain loves, the thrill of sex, and lasting friendships. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft, coupled with a classic coming-of-age tale that does for Boston in the 1980s what Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s and Broyard's Kafka was the Rage did for Greenwich Village in the 1950s. Restless with curiousity and enthusiasm, The Education of a Young Poet is a singular and universal bildungsroman that movingly demonstrates "in telling the story of one's coming into consciousness, all languages are more or less the same." -- from dust jacket.
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