04250cam a2200757 4500 524826984 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781619029958 1619029952 B071L8S6GP Amazon 5e0b7946-9590-42af-b1b0-de2667b09bd7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 675359 675359 3281713 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Biespiel, David. The Education of a Young Poet [Libby]. Catapult, 2017. Biography. criticism. Literary Criticism. book club. autobiographies. Writing. classic. anthology. Autobiography. Short Stories. Library. Reference. biographies. Essays. literature. American Literature. Literary. book lover. book lovers. Literary gifts. gifts for book lovers. gifts for readers. nerd gifts. biographies of famous people. literary biographies. book lover gifts. book lovers gifts. book gifts. gifts for readers book lovers. librarian gifts. gifts for librarians. literature book. reading accessories. reading gifts. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 503kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1228kB. Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>"Biespiel's supple memoir of becoming a poet will surely inspire other writers to embrace the bodily character of writing and feel the power and, sometimes, the emptiness of the act of writing poetry." —<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b><br /> <i>The Education of a Young Poet</i> 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."<br /> 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.<br /> Restless with curiosity and enthusiasm, <i>The Education of a Young Poet</i> 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.". Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5e0b7946-9590-42af-b1b0-de2667b09bd7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5e0b7946-9590-42af-b1b0-de2667b09bd7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5e0b7946-9590-42af-b1b0-de2667b09bd7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)