Comparing the 1st and 7th Drafts of a Poem
24 February 2010
note: Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” might best be known for having undergone seventeen revisions. My own poems go through many edits (though the number varies, poem to poem), and below I’ve posted my first and seventh drafts of a poem that, depending on the draft, is called “Everything” or “all that i can give you.” […]