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UPSTATE by DEREK WALCOTT

Poet Analysis

First Line: A KNIFE BLADE OF COLD AIR KEEPS PRYING
Subject(s): ALIENATION (SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY); DISSENTERS; EXILES; MARGINALITY, SOCIAL;

Poem Sources:

THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY. SUPPLEMENT IV: MINORITY POETRY OF AMERICA.
  (1987)
 
OUTSIDERS; POEMS ABOUT REBELS, EXILES, AND RENEGADES.
  BOSSELAAR, LAURE-ANNE (ED.)
  (1999)
 
COLLECTED POEMS: 1948-1984.
  WALCOTT, DEREK
  (1986)
 



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