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BLACK LACE FAN MY MOTHER GAVE ME by EAVAN BOLAND

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT WAS THE FIRST GIFT HE EVER GAVE HER
Last Line: THE WHOLE, FULL, FLIRTATIOUS SPAN OF IT
Subject(s): FANS;

Poem Sources:

MODERN IRISH POETRY; AN ANTHOLOGY
  CROTTY, PETER (ED.)
  (1995)
 
THE NEW PENGUIN BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE.
  KEEGAN, PAUL (ED.)
  (2001)
 
FIELD, #44, SPRING /91.
  (1991)
 
THE NEW YORKER, V63#35, OCTOBER 19/87.
  (1987)
 



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