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BELOW FOURTEENTH STREET by GERALD STERN

Poet Analysis

First Line: SOMEWHERE ABOVE FOURTEENTH HE PULLED UP HIS SHIRT SLEEVES
Last Line: THE MAN IN BUSY CUFFS, THE CAT IN THE HARNESS
Subject(s): NEW YORK CITY;

Poem Sources:

THE 1997 PUSHCART PRIZE XXI; BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES.
  HENDERSON, BILL (ED.)
  (1996)
 



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