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* Both writers participated in the Spanish Civil War and both wrote about their own experiences of it: Hemingway in his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) and Spender in several of his journals and essays.

* Marilyn lives in le Marais, the Jewish quarter of the 1930s and 1940s where, starting in 1942, French Vichy policemen deported inhabitants to detention and extermination camps.

* Jeffrey Greene is the author of a collection of poetry, American Spirituals, and prose narratives inspired by his adopted province Burgundy. At the Village Voice, he introduced some of the greater American and other poetic voices of the twentieth century, including Ellen Hinsey, W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, Lithuanian Tomas Venclova, and C. K. Williams.

* Haiku, Hawaii, was Merwin’s permanent residence until his death in 2019. During the Village Voice years, he used to spend the summer months in Lacan.