three of my poems have been published
at Jet Fuel Review.
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this month has been, and will remain a
month of revisions. and that's perfectly okay. it is that time of the
semester. when everything seems to be falling apart. for the last one
week or so, i have been revising the manuscript. i am hoping to get
that done by the end of the thanksgiving break. and then send it out
to some readers for some feedback and comments. i have said this
before, and i will say it again. one of the things that can be really
really tricky during revision is to let go of things. that part is
often talked about in writing manuals, creative writing books and
classes. what is often times left out is , how we can recycle old
materials. how the language that we have already generated to write
about certain things can be used elsewhere. put simply, revision
often involves cutting and pasting. a particular poem might be weak
in itself. but, there might be parts in it that are strong and
therefore, can be re-functioned to make an already strong poem
stronger.
and, that's what I have been doing a
lot in the last few days. tearing apart things, re-pasting them onto
the body of other works. i am hoping, all these cutting and pasting
are somehow making this manuscript stronger. yet, there is an
insecurity that looms behind: what if all this work does not ever
amount to anything?
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