[Bill Dyes]

Catherine:

Cattherine, I once was asked if it was OK to remove a posting here because no connection could be seen between the change and the original. I bent to the individual's judgment because to tell you the truth I was a little embarressed. I have since revised it at least 4 more times. I have a number of poems over 10 years old that have been revised to something almost unrecognizable, even to me, since I wasn't faithfully keeping each revision. In fact, my brother put one to music and when I showed him the revision he said, "Well, I'm not writing another song". if you were posting a revision that was a few year's apart from the last revision would you post the two most recent versions at once. I suppose that would be the fair thing to do. I think in Robert Lowelll's "Collected" there is a rather large section of his revisions.