Further thanks, and a report: As I put together the notes I think are needed to help the reader, I learn things about the collection, or about my tendencies, or both. A lot of biblical allusion. A lot of Latin.
Not that I didn't know I use these a lot (duh) but when the notes are all together on the page, the tendency looks a lot more concentrated than it seems to be in the poems themselves. And I'm concerned that some kinds of "concentrations" could count against a collection--which means I have doubts about it that I didn't have before. Ah well.
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