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I WAS SLEEPING WHERE THE BLACK OAKS MOVE by LOUISE ERDRICH

First Line: WE WATCHED FROM THE HOUSE
Last Line: HOW LONG MUST WE LIVE IN THE BROKEN FIGURES %THEIR NECKS MAKE, NARROWING THE SKY
Subject(s): ANCESTORS AND ANCESTRY;

Poem Sources:

HARPER'S ANTHOLOGY OF 20TH CENTURY NATIVE AMERICAN POETRY.
  NIATUM, DUANE (ED.)
  (1988)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. SHORTER FOURTH EDITION.
  FERGUSON, MARGARET, SALTER, MARY JO, & STALLWORTHY, JON (EDS.)
  (1997)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. FOURTH EDITION.
  FERGUSON, MARGARET, SALTER, MARY JO, & STALLWORTHY, JON (EDS.)
  (1996)
 
JACKLIGHT.
  ERDRICH, LOUISE
  (1984)
 



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