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PROLOGUE by DAVID IGNATOW

Poet Analysis

First Line: MINE WAS THE LIFE PLANNED TO GO WRONG
Last Line: YOUR STOMACH QUAKES, YOUR HEAD THICK %WITH WHISPERS, YOUR LEGS TREMBLING

Poem Sources:

POEMS: 1934-1969.
  IGNATOW, DAVID
  (1979)
 
AGAINST THE EVIDENCE; SELECTED POEMS, 1934-1994.
  IGNATOW, DAVID
  (1994)
 



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