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RIVER TRIP by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHORT WALK THROUGH FIELDS TO SOFT-DRINK STAND
Last Line: STEP ASHORE, IN OUR CLUMSINESS HOPING NOT TO SPILL THESE BRIEF IMPRESSIONS

Poem Sources:

GREAT AMERICAN PROSE POEMS; FROM POE TO THE PRESENT.
  LEHMAN, DAVID (ED.)
  (2003)
 
THE INNER ROOM.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1988)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. EDITED BY J.D. MCCLATCHY AND STEPHEN YENSER.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (2001)
 



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