A passionate patience : ten Filipino poets on the writing of their poems

"This book is about what went on in the writing of a poem--what problems arose, what resources were tapped, and what solutions were arrived at...This book underscores the importance of revision in wirting, which itself is an art who temptations the young writer would not find difficult to resist because of its stringent and exacting demands, but which must be eventually yielded to because it is good to do so, because it is where the art of good writing lies, and because it is productive of excellence--which is whart art as craft is about" --from the introduction