Talk:The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You

The following claim is not true: "the seemingly longer line count in the 1977 edition is merely resultant of the paper's octavo size, effecting many lengthy lines to be necessarily broken with indents employed." In October 2008 I spent over three hours listening to Bill Willett and Irv Brought read continuously from the 1977 edition (white cover, Vietnam image) while I read along in the reprint (black cover, African American image). There were dozens of pages Willett and Broughton read from that did not appear in the edition I held in my hands. These were large passages, not sporadic lines. To typeset the reprint, the pages were fed into a machine, detailed in Forrest Gander's introduction in the reprint edition. I do not know how those passages were lost, whether through the mechanical process or by intent, but the editions absolutely differ.Matthew Henriksen (talk) 06:22, 2 April 2015 (

This article is crying out plaintively, desperately for some kind of summary. In its current state the article has not one word about the content, plot (or lack thereof) setting, themes, or any other information of any value about the poem it's supposed to be discussing. Please, somebody write at least a sentence about this poem. 166.176.56.156 (talk) 18:05, 21 December 2015 (UTC)