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MINUS ONE by JOHN CIARDI

Poet Analysis

First Line: OF SEVEN SPARROWS ON A COUNTRY WIRE
Last Line: AGAIN AND AGAIN WITH YOUR SPARROWS, FATHER, AND WHOSE %HAWK IS THIS NOW? UNCHOSEN? COME TO CHOOSE?

Poem Sources:

HOPWOOD ANTHOLOGY; FIVE DECADES OF AMERICAN POETRY.
  THOMAS, HARRY, & LAVINE, STEVEN (EDS.)
  (1981)
 
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JOHN CIARDI. COMPILED AND EDITED BY EDWARD M. CIFELLI.
  CIARDI, JOHN
  (1997)
 



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