Progress Notes
Finished. There are rough spots (four new poems in a week will cause those) but the Orpheus poems fit sweetly into the manuscript and I think I have it now, start to finish.
I will work this weekend to smooth out the rough spots, and will be submitting a few more poems to journals early next week. But yes, I have a finished poetry manuscript ready to roll out the door, and by March 1, I will be turning to a new, and novel, project.
Excuse me while I light a cigar.
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The painting is Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds (1870) by Martin Johnson Heade.
posted by greg rappleye at 10:18 PM
4 Comments:
Love the painting, Greg.
It's a good feeling when one has finished a project and tied up the loose ends. Those ends often take longer than the whole project I find, and often make for frustration. I do wonder whether with poetry one is ever "finished" - don't we look at the stuff after we have left it behind and wish we had used a different word?
Oh, yes.
I will be revising these until (and well after) the book is –-one hopes--picked up by a press.
And I will go on revising them much longer than that.
Congrats on the manuscript! Sorry I'll miss you at AWP. Hope you have a great time.
Congratulations! That's a major accomplishment!
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