That's what I was going to say. Footnotes can be distracting, presumptuous, and pretentious. Someone (was it Empson?) warded me off the poetry and out of his book with swarms of footnotes. Endnotes are the way to go - I think Dick Davis does them well in A Trick of Sunlight, for example.
I agree with Ann - footnotes distract you out of the poem - endnotes invite you back in.
Frank
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