tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163916.post109803397112255364..comments2023-12-03T03:43:26.162-05:00Comments on Out of the Woodwork: REVISING/SUBMITTINGBrian Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17182888011015400963noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163916.post-1098240231757337462004-10-19T22:43:00.000-04:002004-10-19T22:43:00.000-04:00You think! Ha ha ha... I've been thinking so too....You think! Ha ha ha... I've been thinking so too. But we shouldn't be so hard on ourselves. I've seen many a book where the credits said something to the effect that "versions of these poems have appeared in such and such a review." Reviews are testing grounds... it's when it's in a book that the lice seems "trapped" in that poem. (Until you come out with with a "New and Selected (Revised)")-- which even Yeats did near the end of his life!Brian Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17182888011015400963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163916.post-1098194688111732322004-10-19T10:04:00.000-04:002004-10-19T10:04:00.000-04:00I'm really awful about sending work out and then r...I'm really awful about sending work out and then revising it later, even after it's been accepted. I'm getting better about it, though. I used to be unable to recognize when a poem was really "finished," but now I think I have more faith in them.<br /><br />Good luck with submissions!Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05222297450888695352noreply@blogger.com