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." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Restless with curiosity and enthusiasm, The Education of a Young Poet is a singular and universal bildungsroman, a moving account of David Biespiel's 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."" | The Education Of A Young Poet by David Biespiel, Paperback | Indigo Chapters