[New-Poetry] lurker in agreement

[Parker, Alan Michael]

Hi, folks.

I've enjoyed this discussion of dailiness and dalliance. Thanks.

David's notion of "write and rewrite a single poem 10 times, or write 10 poems & select the best one" led me to think about poets who tend to revise "by addition" or "by subtraction." Are you one or the other, one early in the process and the other later? Both, of course, is the answer, but perhaps too easy....

In my writing life, a poem a day is a great gift, but usually doesn't last long. I too don't last long after an extended period of a poem-a-day: such intensity tends to make me nutso.

I think, as well, that the question of writing while we we're doing other things is some of what Keats asks in "Nightingale": which life is waking and which life is sleeping?

Cheers.
AMP