Wednesday 9 June 2021

Larissa Shmailo : part three

How do you know when a poem is finished?

I agree with WH Auden’s paraphrase of Paul Valéry that a poem is never finished, only abandoned. That said, when each line adds something to the poem and the coda brings us to a new place than where we started, it is okay to send it to my poetry partner and begin another poem.

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