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BATTERERS by DENISE LEVERTOV

Poet Analysis

First Line: A MAN SITS BY THE BEDSIDE
Last Line: HE IS TERRIFIED. WHY HAD HE %NEVER SEEN, BEFORE, WHAT SHE WAS? %WHAT IF SHE STOPS BREATHING?

Poem Sources:

THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, V19#6, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER /90.
  (1990)
 
EVENING TRAIN.
  LEVERTOV, DENISE
  (1992)
 



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