Gassho. I am so appreciative of deep listening. Thanks for your comments on Valentine.
By the way, I love the Poets.org website. I didn’t know they broke writers and workshops down by state. Good to know.
I did stumble on an interview on the same website with Donald Hall, Flying Revision’s Flag . Insightful – about the art of revision. Can be applied to all forms of writing.
Hall seems to be a serious revisionist. He said when he was twenty-five a poem took six months or a year to revise. Now, it takes two years to five. I find revising a lot about letting go. What to keep. What to drop. I’m starting to be able to feel in my body when something isn’t right. What I do from there, well, that’s the challenge.
Here’s another interview, Donald Hall, in conversation with Judith Moore, I found with Hall from 1998, four years after his wife, Jane Kenyon, died of leukemia. As writers we have to hold everything – eventually, we write it down.
Life at Eagle Pond: the Poetry of Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall
Friday, February 16th, 2007
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