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Philip Levine

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

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Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

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It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

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My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

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I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

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