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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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