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ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 1. THE EMPTY BODY by MARK STRAND

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE HANDS WERE YOURS, THE ARMS WERE YOURS
Last Line: BUT YOU WERE NOT THERE
Subject(s): FATHERS;

Poem Sources:

POET'S CHOICE; 100 AMERICAN POET'S FAVORITE POEMS.
  MURPHY, JR., GEORGE E. (ED.)
  (1980)
 
LONGMAN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY. 2ND ED.
  FRIEBERT, STUART, & YOUNG, DAVID (EDS.)
  (1989)
 
HARVARD BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY.
  VENDLER, HELEN (ED.)
  (1985)
 



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