[New-Poetry] Re: Prolific poetry

[James Cervantes]

On 10/31/07, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:
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> But as Jarrell suggested in his comment on Stevens, writing a lot,
> regularly, does seem to lubricate the gears.

The musical analogy might shed a little light.  When a musician
practices for hours every day, he or she is not just practicing the
pieces that will be performed publically but different exercises,
etudes, challenging passages etc.  So, in essence, none of musician's
daily music making is for "publication," but for the sake of
maintaining one's "chops" so that when performance time comes and
nothing can be taken back,  the musician can deliver the best possible
performance (doesn't always work, as we know).

-- Jim
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