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Winter Stars - readers' comments

What role do readers play in the creative process? Is there any way to know if the same version of a poem was sent to multiple readers? Were the readers' comments incorporated into the final poem?

 

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Winter Stars with comments by Philip Levine

M 426 B6 f9

 

This item includes two pages.

 

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Winter Stars [typed with reader's comments in pencil]

M 426 B7 f5

 

This item includes two pages.