Filreis further explains the complex lineage of the poem(s) under discussion in his program notes on Jacket2: "One version, titled 'when will my love return from the culture war?,' is six quatrains long. A second, for which we have a recorded performance, is four quatrains; there's a variation on thinking about the second that invites us to call it a sonnet." He continues, "Callie added a version — organized in the quatrains — to their blog on May 1, 2020. On November 19, 2020, Callie read the shorter version of the poem as part of a live-streamed remote (lockdown-era) reading given by eight poets," and this is the source of the performance featured on the show.
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