Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Abandoned or Revised

I understood long ago that selecting one title and writing a series of poems (usually 60-70, sometimes more) worked well for me. I also agree with Paul Valery & his idea that; “a poem is never finished, only abandoned,” This liberating notion inspired me to continue to edit and revise and add to poems I had written decades before.

Rimbaud’s Illuminations

I remember discovering Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations around 1994 or so and thinking that those poems were the pinnacle of his artistic expr...