One Day’s Burning

5: Reapproaching Dawn

Deleting and salvaging a poem; on having rosy fingers; the danger of description.

4: Something Understood

Accessibility, expressiveness, vanity, and George Herbert. Somewhat in that order.

3: In Which I Read One

Starting writing from a blank page (and the dangers of doing so). Features a partial poem, read (and then deleted) with an eye towards why it was kept and why it’s being let go.

2: Discarding Some Bad Advice (I Gave)

Wherein our host struggles to do what he has set out to do, offers a kind of apology to/pro Ginsberg, and ponders self-concussion as a means of expiation for creative sin.

1: On Getting the Fire Started

Destroy a poem? Check. Digress about Ginsberg and the duty of an artist to their art? Oh, my, yes; double-check.