It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
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