In the foreword of On Poetry and Craft, Ted's views on how to revise poetry makes one look at a poem like an organic whole.
Carolyn Kizer refers to her poem The Great Blue heron revised by Roethke.
Poets Roethke admired - Louise Bogan, Leonie Adams, Ruth pitter
In The Heron, I like
The wide wings flap but once to lift him up, at once taking away the power from the heron described till now.
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