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AMERICAN RHAPSODY (4) by KENNETH FEARING

Poet Analysis

First Line: FIRST YOU BITE YOUR FINGERNAILS. AND THEN YOU COMB YOUR HAIR
Last Line: IS THIS, BABY, WHAT YOU WERE BORN TO FEEL, AND DO, AND BE?

Poem Sources:

SURVEY OF AMERICAN POETRY. VOLUME VIII: INTERVAL BETWEEN WARS.
  (1986)
 
AMERICAN POETRY: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. VOLUME 2. E. E. CU,MMINGS TO MAY SWENSON.
  (2000)
 



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