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| Title | Poet | Poem | Criticism Type | Tags |
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| Steven Gould Axelrod on "Skunk Hour" | Poem Criticism | Nature; stain; sterility; ill; heiress; automobiles; steamshovels; scenery; sexuality; loveless | ||
| James E. B. Breslin: On "Skunk Hour" | Poem Criticism | personal; Hell; orange; heiress; otherness; mythology; skunks |
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