SOURCE: “Revision in Action: Chipping and Building,” in Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt, The University of Michigan Press, 1982, pp. 79-98.
In the following essay, Piercy explicates the final stages of her creative process, in particular how she revises and finishes her poems.
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