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LOST WITH LIEUTENANT PIKE by GERALD STERN

Poet Analysis

First Line: HOW WAS I TO KNOW - IN 1938 - THAT ANYONE BUT
Last Line: 9,000 MILES FROM JERUSALEM, WITH THE ICE FORMING %INSIDE YOUR NOSTRILS, AND TO FEEL YOUR OWN WISDOM

Poem Sources:

LEAVING ANOTHER KINGDOM; SELECTED POEMS.
  STERN, GERALD
  (1990)
 



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