These are examples how poets got ideas, modified them, reconsidered, and finally published a single poem. Each example shows a different sort of process, and each example enriches my experience of the final result.
"In 1946, not far from the town of Abda, Hungary, the wife of Miklos Radnoti found his body in a mass grave. He had been executed by the Fascists following a forced march from the labor camp where he had been interned. In the pockets of the trenchcoat he still wore she recovered a notebook of the poems he had written during his hard years in the work camps. This notebook provides much of the basis for Clouded Sky, an extraordinary collection of poems, written by a man who held onto life with his poetry, who would not let go, even in death." From the back cover of the book.… (more)
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