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ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN by GARY SOTO

First Line: IN JUNE THE SUN IS A BONNET OF LIGHT
Last Line: IN A MOST OF BLOND LOCUSTS, %RETURNING TO THE VALLEY
Subject(s): FARM LIFE; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA; SUN;

Poem Sources:

19 NEW AMERICAN POETS OF THE GOLDEN GATE.
  DOW, PHILIP (ED.)
  (1984)
 
HANDSPAN OF RED EARTH; AN ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FARM POEMS.
  MARCONI, CATHERINE LEWALLEN (ED.)
  (1991)
 
THE PITTSBURGH BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY.
  OCHESTER, ED, & ORESICK, PETER (EDS.)
  (1993)
 
NEW AND SELECTED POEMS.
  SOTO, GARY
  (1995)
 



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