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Notes on Bye Bye Land
(Numbers refer to–in order–section, stanza, and line.) Part 1 1,8,2: Thomas Wyatt, “Forget Not Yet.” 2,1,1: “Ships, towers, domes, theaters and temples lie / Open unto to the sea, and to the sky,” Wordsworth, “Lines Composed on Westminster Bridge, 1802.” 2,5,1: Ronald Reagan, campaign slogan of 1984. 3,1,1: “History is ours and the people make…
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Explanatory Notes and Bios
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A. Van Jordan, Afaa Michael Weaver, Allison Benis White, Aracelis Girmay, catherine barnett, Dana Levin, David Caplan, David Yezzi, Erika Meitner, Ernest Hilbert, evie shockley, Geffrey Davis, Gerald Maa, H. L. Hix, Idra Novey, J. P. Dancing Bear, Jason Schneiderman, jee leong koh, Jennifer Chang, Jennifer Kronovet, Jenny Browne, Joanne Diaz, John Murillo, Joshua Weiner, Juliana Spahr, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Kazim Ali, Kimiko Hahn, Kristina Jipson, Marilyn Nelson, Matthew Zapruder, Meena Alexander, Meghan O’Rourke, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Patrick Rosal, Paula Bohince, Peter Campion, Quinn Latimer, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Roger Sedarat, Ross Gay, Ross White, Sophie Cabot Black, SS, Stephen Burt, Tara BettsMeena Alexander I was moved by the poem by J.P.Dancing Bear (though I did not know the poet’s name then)–the lyric grace, the sweet snout of elegy, the fecund redness, then utter pallor of it. The loss flickered in me. A poem I had already started writing, over a year ago, or rather lines of…