![]() ![]() Late in my teens, I discovered Yeats, who of course revised assiduously, not only in drafts before publication but after publication, from printing to printing. I remember that some teachers were impressed that I revised, but I don't remember anyone urging me to revise. Lammon: Do you recall any teachers or peers who first talked about the revision process? It must've been temperament: no one praised revision to me I don't recall reading about revision in biographies. It astonishes me that, when I finished one of these poems, I turned back to the first page and immediately started rewriting it. When I was fourteen I got serious and wrote long poems in free verse called "Cain," "Blood," and "The Night Wanderer." Coming home from high school, I shut the door of my bedroom and sat at my desk, working at poems every afternoon for two hours. Martin Lammon: Have you always revised your poems, from the beginning?ĭonald Hall: At twelve, when I wrote my first few poems, I don't believe I revised. An interview with Martin Lammon, originally published in Kestral in 1993. ![]()
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