{"product_id":"the-education-of-a-young-poet-paperback","title":"The Education of a Young Poet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Education of a Young Poet\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRestless with curiosity and enthusiasm, \u003ci\u003eThe Education of a Young Poet\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376764256479,"sku":"9781640091108","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Kq2MhBawZL9781640091108.webp?v=1789225276","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-education-of-a-young-poet-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}