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FRAGRANCE OF LIFE, ODOR OF DEATH by DENISE LEVERTOV

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First Line: ALL THE WHILE AMONG
Last Line: I smell death
Subject(s): WAR;

Full Poem Text Available at
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Poems_1972_1982/5wPj5fKfV7cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=levertov+%22All+the+while+among%22&pg=PA23&printsec=frontcover



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