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POLA DIVA (AFTER CHRISTIAN AYOUB) by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL

Poet Analysis

First Line: SENSATIONAL EFFECTS HAVE SUBTLE CAUSES
Last Line: KNOWS TO HAVE BEEN THE PHANAR'S NIGHTINGALE

Poem Sources:

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



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