As a reader, I appreciate a "Notes" page. Two great examples that come to mind are the "Some Notes" page at the end of Hapax by Alicia Stallings and in Richard Wilbur's Collected Poems 1943-2004 - (notes for six sections). There should be a balance and a logic to notes, not over-done, never trying to "explicate" the poem. I dislike footnotes in poetry books.
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