[New-Poetry] Just Wondering

[Anny Ballardini]

Bob,

this won't answer your question either, but it might be interesting within the context. Ted Nelson wanted to create a software that kept all the typewritten versions filed, so that at the end of writing you would have previous versions available.
Here are his words for : The Xanadu Model:

.  SIDE-BY-SIDE INTERCOMPARISON OF CONNECTED DOCUMENTS-- showing two-way links, differences between versions, origins of contexts.  (For a simple working demonstration, see our new free CosmicBook(tm) reader.) 
.  DEEP VERSION MANAGEMENT: documents may be changed incrementally (with each version available); versions may branch; authors may easily see exact differences between versions. 
.  INCREMENTAL PUBLISHING: new changes may be continually made by authors without breaking links.

http://xanadu.com/xuTheModel/


  From: Bob Grumman 
  Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 11:12 PM


   
    I'vr shown drafts of a poem ro a workshop where I was a guest. I shy away from showing my own writing in classes I teach.
    That's the way my teachers were.  I'd got the other way if I taught poetry.  To each his own, of course, but who would be better equipped to show how to write a poem than a poet using a poem of his own? 

    No answer yet to my query as to whether there are any books around in which a poet takes readers through all the steps of one or more of his own poem's creation.  There have, I know, been anthologies in which poets discuss a favorite poem of their own, and often talk about what they did and why, but they don't usually do it with drafts of their poems. 

    --Bob G. 



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