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WAVING GOOD-BYE by GERALD STERN

Poet Analysis

First Line: I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEFORE WE
Last Line: AS THEY MADE THEIR TURN INTO THE EMPTY HIGHWAY
Subject(s): FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS;

Poem Sources:

MORE LIGHT; FATHER & DAUGHTER POEMS; A TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN SELECTION.
  SHINDER, JASON (ED.)
  (1993)
 
GOOD POEMS.
  KEILLOR, GARRISON (ED.)
  (2002)
 
LEAVING ANOTHER KINGDOM; SELECTED POEMS.
  STERN, GERALD
  (1990)
 
THIS TIME; NEW AND SELECTED POEMS.
  STERN, GERALD
  (1998)
 



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