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LIFE by DAVID IGNATOW

Poet Analysis

First Line: TO REST IN LOVE AS A WATER BUG RESTS ON THE SURFACE, SWINGING TO AND
Last Line: SENSE OF SELF IN THIS WATERY SUPPORT, THE SELF OF HIP AND THIGH, MY %HEAD, TOO, AFLOAT. LET THIS BE

Poem Sources:

DESPITE THE PLAINNESS OF THE DAY; LOVE POEMS.
  IGNATOW, DAVID
  (1991)
 
AGAINST THE EVIDENCE; SELECTED POEMS, 1934-1994.
  IGNATOW, DAVID
  (1994)
 



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