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POEM FOR MY FATHER by TOI DERRICOTTE

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU CLOSED THE DOOR
Last Line: OLD MAN WHOSE SPERM SWIMS IN MY VEINS, %COME BACK IN LOVE, COME BACK IN PAIN
Subject(s): FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS;

Poem Sources:

BLUESTONES AND SALT HAY; AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY NEW JERSEY POETS.
  LEWIS, JOEL (ED.)
  (1990)
 
MORE LIGHT; FATHER & DAUGHTER POEMS; A TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN SELECTION.
  SHINDER, JASON (ED.)
  (1993)
 
NO MORE MASKS! AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN POETS. NEWLY REVISED AND EXPANDED.
  HOWE, FLORENCE (ED.)
  (1993)
 
LIKE THUNDER; POETS RESPOND TO VIOLENCE IN AMERICA.
  SUAREZ, VIRGIL AND RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE
  (2002)
 
CALLALOO, V14#3, SUMMER /91.
  (1991)
 
CAPTIVITY.
  DERRICOTTE, TOI
  (1989)
 



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