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OCTOPUS by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL

Poet Analysis

First Line: THERE ARE MANY MONSTERS THAT A GLASSEN SURFACE RESTRAINS
Last Line: TILL ON GLASS RIGID WITH HIS OWN SEIZURE %AT LENGTH THE SUCKING JEWELS FREEZE
Subject(s): OCTOPUSES;

Poem Sources:

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY. 4TH ED.
  POULIN, A., JR. (ED.)
  (1985)
 
SURVEY OF AMERICAN POETRY. VOLUME X: MID CENTURY TO 1984; GENERAL INDEXES.
  (1986)
 
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS; AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1940.
  STRAND, MARK (ED.)
  (1969)
 
ANIMAL POEMS.
  HOLLANDER, JOHN (ED.)
  (1994)
 
EIGHT AMERICAN POETS.
  CONARROE, JOEL (ED.)
  (1997)
 
FROM THE FIRST NINE; POEMS, 1946-1976.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1982)
 
SELECTED POEMS, 1946 - 1985.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1993)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. EDITED BY J.D. MCCLATCHY AND STEPHEN YENSER.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (2001)
 



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