Poems on the homeless: David Ferry’s “Dives”

March 29, 2013 By Zara Raab

[Note: “Dives” is reprinted below and is available on line in Google archives.] Among poems about the homeless and insane, “Dives” is not perhaps as powerful, dramatic, or moving as Donald Justice’s “In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn,” or even Ferry’s own poem “The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People,” […]

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