In response to RJN, and then I'm outta this dump for a week for vacation
(at home)--I learned one very valuable thing in putting together that MS
for Poetry: what's my theme, how to find my theme, how to eradicate even
good poems that had found earlier publication if I couldn't somehow
connect to the ongoing obsession of the book. In other words, yes, I
had to look at years of work without a whole hell of a lot of mercy,
rewrite stuff, chop things to bits, and if I could not make it cohere, I
had to get rid of it for this round anyway.
ken
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