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OFTEN I AM PERMITTED TO RETURN TO A MEADOW by ROBERT DUNCAN

Poet Analysis

First Line: AS IF IT WERE A SCENE MADE-UP BY THE MIND
Last Line: EVERLASTING OMEN OF WHAT IS

Poem Sources:

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY. 4TH ED.
  POULIN, A., JR. (ED.)
  (1985)
 
NEW MODERN POETRY; BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY SINCE WORLD WAR II.
  ROSENTHAL, M. L. (ED.)
  (1967)
 
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN VERSE.
  ELLMANN, RICHARD (ED.)
  (1976)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: VOLUME 2.
  (1994)
 
POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY: A NORTON ANTHOLOGY.
  HOOVER, PAUL (ED.)
  (1994)
 
POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM. VOLUME 2. FROM POSTWAR TO MILLENNIUM.
  ROTHENBERG, JEROME, AND JORIS, PIERRE (EDS.)
  (1998)
 
CHIEF MODERN POETS OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA. 5TH EDITION. EDITED BY GERALD DEWITT SANDERS, JOHN HERBERT NELSON, AND M.L. ROSENTHAL.
  SANDERS, GERALD DEWITT (ED.)
  (1970)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AMERICAN POETRY.
  NELSON, CARY (ED.)
  (2000)
 
SELECTED POEMS.
  DUNCAN, ROBERT
  (1993)
 
SELECTED POEMS. EDITED BY ROBERT J. BERTHOLF. REVISED AND ENLARGED.
  DUNCAN, ROBERT
  (1997)
 



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