9 August 2021
Revision is my favorite part of the writing process. I relish the creative problem-solving more than the rush of getting it down. If you're like me, your poem might go through anywhere from two to two hundred drafts before you're satisfied enough with it to call it "done" and send it out. Each revision, ideally, gets us closer to the poem we sense is there, waiting. The poem that will do the psychic or spiritual work we want it to do.
But each revision can also pull us farther away from the initial spark of the poem. This tension, this push and pull, is what makes revision dynamic and exciting: we are hunting something but are not quite clear about what it looks like or how to find it.
