Revolution era, a span of time whose subterranean influence on the
present is equaled only by the current regime’s resistance to an open
reckoning with its past.
Note
- According to Sun, the footnote contains a typographical error. The middle
school was, as given in the poem, a half-lior more (approximately^1 ⁄ 6 of a
mile) from his New Railway Village (Personal communication, June 17,
2005).
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