Thousands of Poems Before I Sleep
Building a poetry archive can wear a person out.
D.H. Tracy
is the Poetry Foundation's Archive Editor. Here he writes about the task of choosing what to include, and how sometimes it felt like he was constructing an unsteady monument.
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