On the revision process - and Richard Wilbur in particular -there's a book most recently edited by Robert Wallace/Michelle Boisseau called Writing Poems that has an excellent section on revision and tightening, and even shows some of the various steps of Wilbur's "Love Calls Us to the Things of the World" as he revised it. Very interesting. Just figured I'd throw that out there, because that's one of the few poetry books I've ever found that actually showed that kind of thing.
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