of going back to your work over and over again. Never show it to anyone until you have kept it around for several weeks at least.”

- Donald Hall, Former United States Poet Laureate (2006-2007)

While it might work for Donald Hall, who claims to revise his works at least 50 times and, more generally, a hundred or more times, this is the sort of advice that is exactly wrong for me: too much dissatisfaction and I fail to move forward, fail to show my work, finally, failing to do anything.