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LAMENT FOR THE MAKERS by ROBERT PINSKY

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THE TRUTH? WHAT IF I COULD?
Last Line: BUT IN OTHERS ONLY VOICES OR EVEN QUIET, %AND THE PLAYER'S ARM PAUSES AND PUMPS AGAIN

Poem Sources:

PUSHCART PRIZE XII; BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES. 1987-88 EDITION.
  HENDERSON, BILL (ED.)
  (1987)
 
WANT BONE.
  PINSKY, ROBERT
  (1990)
 
THE FIGURED WHEEL: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS, 1966 - 1996.
  PINSKY, ROBERT
  (1996)
 



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