Discovering poetry …

… Figuring It out in the Air: On “The Education of a Young Poet” - Los Angeles Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In short, fragmented chapters that move around in time, Biespiel recounts pivotal experiences in his early life and the lives of some of his ancestors, revisiting the places where he discovered poetry, where the impulse to be a poet and learn the work of poetry occurred.