tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595859379914711075.post9121872276253653977..comments2024-03-19T18:51:58.496-05:00Comments on Cultural Front: Multiple versions of Kevin Young's To Repel GhostsH. Rambsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16862209871277442972noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595859379914711075.post-89907515212956380422017-09-16T21:56:31.417-05:002017-09-16T21:56:31.417-05:00Snap. Brain freeze on that. Thanks for the heads u...Snap. Brain freeze on that. Thanks for the heads up. H. Rambsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16862209871277442972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-595859379914711075.post-9633462909172241242017-09-14T12:21:50.239-05:002017-09-14T12:21:50.239-05:00Just came back to this old post in wrapping up rev...Just came back to this old post in wrapping up revisions on that article manuscript I mentioned about black poetry and notes/paratext, as I so often come back to your blog posts as hugely informative - thanks again for reminding me of the importance of To Repel Ghosts in tracing that recent history. Very minute point to contribute here. There are not 116 and 292 footnotes respectively to the two versions: there are 32 and 43 respectively, so still certainly substantial (and still a key distinction between the Zoland Books and Knopf versions), but not quite as expansive and extensive as you're suggesting. The notes are not traditionally numbered: each one opens with the page number of the poem to which it refers, rather than proceeding through a sequence of note #1, note #2, etc. - hence the understandable confusion. I find that choice of how to number the notes interesting, because it suggests usability/reader-friendliness in a way that traditional academic footnote format conventionally does not to many readers. He doesn't place the footnote markers intrusively in the body of the poems themselves and instead leaves them totally separate in the liner notes, but then makes it easy to flip right back to the page number referenced - kind of different from some of the other annotating practices we're seeing! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11031484026349064322noreply@blogger.com