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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2009-06-16 12:18 am

You confused evasion and artistic tact

I have spent three weeks now on a poem that will neither resolve nor get out of my head. I cannot make it work at all. I don't know why it isn't working. I want to put my head through plate glass.
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2009-06-16 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It does sound like time to set it aside to ferment in a cask for a while, to return to later.

(This unsolicited advice offered to you by someone who just finished revising yet again something he started in June 1993.)

---L.