no other editor I will have in my life I think will love me and my work and take such care as she at this age
you should have seen her last night
even the week before at the clinic
she looked thru the 1st 15 poems and said that's all for one ? I amended it and she said this is much better!
then last night she looked thru almost the whole set, all 50 poems. commented on the order gave suggestions . true frank suggestions unbiased honest
then we started brainstorming for titles. had a set she went around getting votes from the family
then we got a whole bunch of poetry books from my house. she arranged them on a circle with us in the centre and we explored how each of them are organised. she wrote down categories.
made me stop when i was about to rush thru one and said wait let's see this and she pondered and that actually led us to a possible title!
"leaves in the wind"
to suggest temporality, beauty, nature tinged which most of my poems are
a kind of randomness too about the collection and how this randomness can add beauty
I'm going to create a vault too of poems we could include to replace exisiting ones.
she said we must include poems people can relate to.
she also prompted me to write a poem about the trees they cut down at my place to express my anger and dismay. and I did! and feel happy coz then I had a poem after a long time
and best of all now at least 10 poetry collections have resurfaced to me for my reading. this too will help me wrote more and improve my work. so... yay!
