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RITUAL by JANE HIRSHFIELD

Poet Analysis

First Line: BEFORE, IN THE CLUTTERED SHOP
Last Line: AND THE ELDERS, THESE NEW ELDERS - WHAT OF THEM?
Subject(s): TIANANMEN SQUARE INCIDENT, 1989;

Poem Sources:

EARTH AGAINST HEAVEN; A TIANANMEN SQUARE ANTHOLOGY.
  TONETTO, WALTER (ED.)
  (1990)
 
THE OCTOBER PALACE.
  HIRSHFIELD, JANE
  (1994)
 



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