Des Mots Nouveaux.(Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

This is quite a complex poem, which relies on personification of the new words. It gives us insight into Sam hunt's method of composition. He wrote late at night, till dawn. Every writer has his own way and time to write.
He speaks of the new words which he is using in poems. He sends them out each day-to editors or friends- and they make their own pitch. They come back home tired and settle for the night. Only then does he work late on them, a few surrender and tell him about his girlfriend. 'That's when there's a poem in it'.
Myself, I write down new words in notebooks, look up meanings in a dictionary, and write columns of words with their meaning. Needless to say, it is one thing to write down a new word, but quite another to turn the pages of a dictionary and write that meaning down. Even writing down new words is an effort. Currently, I have a large number of words/meanings, but many listed without a meaning as yet. English is a language with an inexhaustible supply ofwords, so you have to be selective.