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.

Note To Byron Hoot About Poetic Dialog

I had the idea that all of my poems were like a conversation and that I could enter into any part of it again, making the dialog of nearly 4...