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PROTESTOR by SHARON OLDS

Poet Analysis

First Line: WE WERE DRIVING NORTH, THROUGH THE SNOW, YOU SAID
Last Line: SWALLOWED AND CARRIED IN THE ARK OF THE BODY ITSELF
Subject(s): KENT STATE UNIVERSITY - RIOT, 1970;

Poem Sources:

A GATHERING OF POETS. EDITED BY MAGGIE ANDERSON AND ALEX GILDZEN.
  ANDERSON, MAGGIE (ED.)
  (1992)
 
THE PARIS REVIEW, #108, FALL/88
  (1988)
 
BLOOD, TIN, STRAW.
  OLDS, SHARON
  (1999)
 



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