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ANNIE HILL'S GRAVE by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: AMEN. THE CASKET LIKE A SPACESHIP BEARS HER
Last Line: THE SILENCE DRUMS INTO HER UPTURNED FACE

Poem Sources:

FROM THE FIRST NINE; POEMS, 1946-1976.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1982)
 
SELECTED POEMS, 1946 - 1985.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1993)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. EDITED BY J.D. MCCLATCHY AND STEPHEN YENSER.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (2001)
 



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