Of course it's necessary to know what's not working. The best is when somebody fixes an intractable problem with a bon mot, or even completely rewrites a line. Or proposes that I draft an entirely new stanza. This happens to me with considerable frequency. I can go through my present manuscript and remember the lines written by John Beaton, for example "Wolves have mothers too." It justifies and repays with interest all the effort I put into others' poems.
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