In Jayant Kashyap’s poem titled “A Lover’s Discourse,” the title is borrowed from Roland Barthes’ book A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (1977). The first line of Kashyap’s poem is in conversation with the lines “We shall meet again, in Srinagar, / by the gates of the Villa of Peace,” which appear in “A Pastoral,” from Agha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without a Post Office (1997). The seventh line of Kashyap’s poem is influenced by the line “I have survived my life,” which appears in “Grandmother in the Garden,” from Louise Glück’s Firstborn (1968). 

The final line in Aicha bint Yusif’s poem “How does a genocide end?” refers to Refaat Alareer, “our beloved poet and essayist who was assassinated by Israel on the 6th of Dec., 2023.”

In Jayant Kashyap’s poem titled “Kneading,” the final line of the poem is an altered one borrowed from the title of a poem by Conor O’Callaghan, “There’s No One Here At The Moment.”