{"product_id":"the-education-of-a-young-poet-9781640091108","title":"The Education of a Young Poet","description":"\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 \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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Biespiel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781640091108","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43962536820873,"sku":"9781640091108","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a03fde25-1f6f-4814-9f13-423b5f3bbb31.jpg?v=1746510485","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-education-of-a-young-poet-9781640091108","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}