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GODDESS by DENISE LEVERTOV

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHE IN WHOSE LIPSERVICE %I PASSED MY TIME
Last Line: SPEAKS IN ITS OWN TONGUE, BUT RETURNS %LIE FOR LIE!
Subject(s): WOMEN;

Poem Sources:

SHE RISES LIKE THE SUN; INVOCATIONS OF THE GODDESS BY CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WOMEN POETS.
  CANAN, JANINE (ED.)
  (1989)
 
SURVEY OF AMERICAN POETRY. VOLUME X: MID CENTURY TO 1984; GENERAL INDEXES.
  (1986)
 
THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY, 1945-1960.
  ALLEN, DONALD M. (ED.)
  (1999)
 
POSTMODERNS; THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY REVISED.
  ALLEN, DONALD, & BUTTERICK, GEORGE F. (EDS.)
  (1982)
 
POET'S CHOICE
  ENGLE, PAUL & LANGLAND, JOSEPH (EDS.)
  (1962)
 
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN VERSE.
  ELLMANN, RICHARD (ED.)
  (1976)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF LITERATURE BY WOMEN. SECOND EDITION.
  GILBERT, SANDRA M. & GUBAR, SUSAN (EDS.)
  (1996)
 
THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY ON CD. 20TH CENTURY: POETRY OF OUR TIME.
  (1998)
 



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