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FALLING by JAMES DICKEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE STATES WHEN THEY BLACK OUT AND LIE THERE ROLLING WHEN THEY TURN
Last Line: FEELS HERSELF GO GO TOWARD GO OUTWARD BREATHES AT LAST FULLY %NOT AND TRIES LESS ONCE TRIES TRIES AH
Subject(s): ACCIDENTS;

Poem Sources:

THE MADE THING.
  STOKESBURY, LEON (ED.)
  (1987)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY. 2ND ED.
  ELLMANN, RICHARD, & O'CLAIR, ROBERT (EDS.)
  (1988)
 
THE NEW YORKER BOOK OF POEMS; SELECTED BY THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORKER.
  (1969)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: VOLUME 2.
  (1994)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AMERICAN POETRY.
  NELSON, CARY (ED.)
  (2000)
 
THE WHOLE MOTION: COLLECTED POEMS, 1945 - 1992.
  DICKEY, JAMES
  (1992)
 
JAMES DICKEY; THE SELECTED POEMS.
  DICKEY, JAMES
  (1998)
 



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