Revision Toolkit: The Wild Redo
Remember when you went back to the playground as an older kid and did things differently? You climbed up the slide and crawled over the monkey bars and discovered new ways to use the space by changing your old habits. Sometimes revision is like that—a little nostalgic and a little contrarian. Sometimes (especially with poems that have been sitting in a drawer for a year or ten) we have to argue with ourselves in order to (re)write a poem that honors our original creative intent. This toolkit contains two revision techniques you can use with any poem.
Remember when you went back to the playground as an older kid and did things differently? You climbed up the slide and crawled over the monkey bars and discovered new ways to use the space by changing your old habits. Sometimes revision is like that—a little nostalgic and a little contrarian. Sometimes (especially with poems that have been sitting in a drawer for a year or ten) we have to argue with ourselves in order to (re)write a poem that honors our original creative intent. This toolkit contains two revision techniques you can use with any poem.
Remember when you went back to the playground as an older kid and did things differently? You climbed up the slide and crawled over the monkey bars and discovered new ways to use the space by changing your old habits. Sometimes revision is like that—a little nostalgic and a little contrarian. Sometimes (especially with poems that have been sitting in a drawer for a year or ten) we have to argue with ourselves in order to (re)write a poem that honors our original creative intent. This toolkit contains two revision techniques you can use with any poem.