07-05-2023, 09:47 AM
I don't have a problem with footnotes, or their equivalent in digital formats. Both for informational and entertainment purposes, they have their place. KL mentioned Beckett's Whoroscope in another thread. The editors are sometimes right. Whoroscope without notes would be pretty hard to digest. Ditto the poems of David Jones. And there are a number of poets (Pound, for example) where they would be a positive addition.
It is a pain to use them, but I don't think a poem that needs them is any less a poem.
It is a pain to use them, but I don't think a poem that needs them is any less a poem.