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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: FELDMAN, IRVING Matches Found: 114 Feldman, Irving Poet's Biography 114 poems available by this author (SIC)TRANSCRIPT GLORIA, OR THE BODY POLITICIAN First Line: The transcript records that day's dark ... A CURSE First Line: If I forget thee not, new york Subject(s): Hate AFTER EMPIRES First Line: The boots, the pompadour, the enigma smile Last Line: There are theories. %and we are counting ALL OF US HERE, SELS. AMBITION First Line: Ambition the drummer boy ARSLAN & ARPADD: ON THE QUESTION OF CRAFT First Line: How does he do it? Everyone exclaims ARTIST AND MODEL Poem Text First Line: Carefully, he set an easel out Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Models; Rape BAD BRUNCH First Line: What got them started hardly mattered, did it Last Line: My every effort to take you seriously BEAUTIFUL FALSE THINGS First Line: Broadcast as if from beyond the grave, a voice Last Line: Believe me, it's better...The original BUST-UP First Line: Their thrashing in one another's clutches Last Line: Make the wedding party loud with clanging pots CARTOONS First Line: Somewhere cars are parking any which way Last Line: At its foot a hubcap clank-clink-clinks itself down CITY OF GOOD NEIGHBORS BLUES First Line: Impossible,' lionel chummily remarks Last Line: So,' he says, 'you weren't born here, were you?' CURSE First Line: If I forget thee not, new york Last Line: May slugs jam every turnstile slot %if I forget thee not Subject(s): Hate DEATH OF VITELLOZZO VITELLI First Line: Vitelli rides west toward fano, the morning sun Last Line: But his shadow hurries from his feet to his face DESIRING POWER WHERE SURRENDER FAILED First Line: How can sharing bread not be true companionship? Last Line: Run, little poem, run, run away from here! DOUBLE First Line: On other cloudy afternoon Last Line: To live you on afternoons like this DREAM First Line: Once, years after your death, I dreamt DUST, PALLOR, DRABNESS OF THE TOMB ELEGY FOR A SUICIDE Poem Text First Line: Behold, these flowers of the field Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Birds; Childhood ENTRANCES First Line: Megatherium %jack maximum EPISODE Poem Text First Line: Their quarrel sent them reeling from the house. EPISODE First Line: Their quarrel sent them reeling from the house Last Line: Had someone been up to just one more dare FAMILY HISTORY First Line: My family tree is mist and darkness Last Line: My son, my son, here, please put it on FATHER AND SON Poem Text First Line: Set against each other, ready to butt Subject(s): Fathers & Sons FIFTEEN MINUTES First Line: This measly fraction is what andy prophesied Last Line: And who grow famous, too, in his company FOR J.M., HIS POEMS First Line: To prove that ecstasy can be kind Last Line: We leave everything behind FUNNY BONES, OR LARRY DAWN'S 1001 NIGHTS IN CONDOLANDIA First Line: Why, its larry sunrise! (shouldn't it be sunstroke? Last Line: Enter anna maria alberghetti singing singing GOOD MORNING AMERICA First Line: Snuff a senator for a wart ...' GYMNASTS First Line: Legs v-ed out from the groin's nugget Subject(s): Sports HANDBALL PLAYERS AT BRIGHTON BEACH First Line: And then the blue would daring onward Last Line: Festive, clear, crowded with delight HEAVENLY MUSE First Line: Late, as usual Last Line: Oh, all right. 'sing, heavenly muse!' HONORS! PRIZES! AWARDS! ETC! First Line: Eternal outsider always wanting in Last Line: Who hasn't hoped to be more famous that death? HOW WONDERFUL Poem Text First Line: How wonderful to be understood, IMMORALITY First Line: The tropical, vast, velvet, star-struck dark INTERRUPTION First Line: She'd just gone out onto the stoop, and run down the steps Last Line: Of her palm she would go ahead and sprinkle the raisins in Subject(s): Children; Memory; Relationships JOKER First Line: Call!' 'call!' 'call!' 'call!' 'call!' 'call!' Last Line: From the shattered room in the house of ashes JUST ANOTHER SMACK Poem Text First Line: Schoolmaster auden gave them full marks Subject(s): School; Life KARMIC CHUTZPA First Line: Thousands of readers, 'howl' changed my life in libertyville %illnois' Last Line: Has struck the poet toghun dead LAURA AMONG THE SHADES First Line: Honor, and excellence, and transcendent best Last Line: My laurels mingled with berries of the nightshade LES GRANDES PASSIONS MANQUEES Poem Text First Line: Had she survived her immolation Last Line: Was earthen and too insipid to burn Subject(s): Fire; Passion; Survival LES GRANDES PASSIONS MANQUEES First Line: Had she survived her immolation Last Line: Was earthen and too insipid to burn Subject(s): Fire; Passion; Survival LIFE AND LETTERS First Line: He got taken quick. Then he hung around LITTLE LULLABY First Line: Dark-time. The little ones like bees Last Line: Dispossessed, uncharming, enormous %bodies approach; they wish to fulfill you LIVES OF THE POETS First Line: Good old paul -- when he might have been kind Last Line: His coronary when it came along was wholehearted, unrefusable LOSS Poem Text First Line: The world gathers itself away from her Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LOWDOWN First Line: Remember when jack changed girls year by year? Last Line: And jill, still carrying on, changes doctors! MAN WITH BLUE CATARRH First Line: Astounding! Or awesome! Or epochal! Last Line: That would do wonders for his sinuses MOVIETIME First Line: They can't wait (we couldn't wait, they'll say) Last Line: Was it good for you? Mmmm. And you? Was it good for you? MY OLSON ELEGY Poem Text First Line: Three weeks, and now I hear Subject(s): Olson, Charles (1910-1970) NATIVE SOIL, WE SAY. BUT SOIL IS DEBRIS NO BIG DEAL Poem Text First Line: Well, anthony starts to hit on this chick Last Line: "into such an uproar -- it's no big deal!" Subject(s): Indifference OEDIPUS HOST First Line: Blindman, cripple quarrel in a single body Last Line: And death, is that you in your bright chariot? OF COURSE, WE WOULD WISH Last Line: And beyond whiteness white, sole, invisible OF THIS AND THAT, AND THE OTHER, AND THE FALL OF MAN First Line: This and that. %here and there Last Line: Yow! %I'm being thrown! OH, HERE AND THERE ONE SEEMS POISED OLD IVY AND ARSENIC First Line: My old classmate ben, you say? Ben? Last Line: Precisely, on the perforations OLD MEN First Line: Ho! Persephone brings flowers, to the, Last Line: Down down into the earth ONLY THEN First Line: She'd just reached that moment in her trip OUTRAGE IS ANOINTED BY LEVITY OR TWO LAUREATES A-LUNCHING First Line: In any case (or, as our comedians say Last Line: Unable to answer %silence %unable %and yet writes %the silence %out PAL IRONY First Line: Because he was a wise master and fed it Last Line: A wild, sharp, savage sweet-tooth for bad tastes PARTING First Line: Though the heavens shall undergo revision Last Line: They will not hide the blacked-out sky they brighten POEM OF THE OLD AVANT-GARDE First Line: Coming home, cut to pieces, but victorious PRAISING OPENS First Line: I praise you and my heart opens Last Line: And, mortal, my heart opens PRIPET MARSHES First Line: Often I think of my jewish friends and seize them as they are Last Line: I sink down as though drugged or beaten Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PROGRESS Poem Text First Line: History becomes prophecy becomes PSALM First Line: There is no singing without god Last Line: Do not deny your blessing, speak to us PURSE OF COY D First Line: Stuck, wedged in, crushed Last Line: Perfections shall hurl themselves into each other READ TO THE ANIMALS, OR ORPHEUS AT THE SPCA First Line: Dear mr. Levine RECOGNITIONS First Line: Not the god, though it might have been Last Line: Who I was was precious to me RETIREMENT First Line: Everyone talks here, nobody listens Last Line: To make things come out even, and end when you do Subject(s): Old Age; Retirement ROYAL BORE First Line: Along with counselor, confessor, poet, fool Last Line: Savor to its fullest the sweetness of life RUNNERS First Line: Here or there hundreds of them, phantom-like SCENE OF A SUMMER MORNING Poem Text First Line: Scene of a summer morning: my mother walking Last Line: Drifting, the ten tribes there, gone forever Subject(s): Family Life; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Relatives; Shoah; Judaism SCENE OF A SUMMER MORNING First Line: Scene of a summer morning: my mother walking Last Line: No longer mine. Littering through my fingers, %drifting, the ten tribes, lost forever Subject(s): Family Life; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SE APROVECHAN' Poem Text First Line: They take advantage' -- the soldiers need clothes Last Line: Rears up! - bugt the head is out of the picture Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Paintings & Painters SE APROVECHAN' First Line: They take advantage' -- the soldiers need clothes Last Line: Rears up! -- but the head is out of the picture Subject(s): Art And Artists; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Paintings And Painters SIMPLE OUTLINES, HUMAN SHAPES First Line: Simple outlines, human shapes, daily acts, plain poses Last Line: And we can't find it in our hearts to pity, or forgive SIX SAILORS Poem Text Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 1. IDEAL DISORDERS Poem Text First Line: Miles of rows of orange trash cans Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 2. A NEW WORLD Poem Text First Line: Torn maps, pages in spume Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 4. THE TOWER Poem Text First Line: A tower of men Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City SOLANGE MISTRAL First Line: I knew that silhouette elegant in black Last Line: I bow to the verdict of the embers SONG Poem Text First Line: I'm in love Subject(s): Love SONO UN POETA....SCRIVO' First Line: At eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old Last Line: You cried out from the heart of brutality STREET SCENE First Line: Like bulls trotting on their solemn rounds STRETCHED OUT AT LENGTH Poem Text Subject(s): Self SURELY THEY'RE JUST SO LARGE Last Line: By enormity, just peeping around the corner SWITCH First Line: Each of us has it - the live/die switch Last Line: An empty, thrilling puff replaces him TANTRUM First Line: From the doorway he saw the next room Last Line: In amy form be able to leave TERMINAL LAUGHS Poem Text First Line: Thirty years ago the young corso in his cups Last Line: “iriving feldman,” huh? Just another pretty name Subject(s): Names; Poetry & Poets TERMINAL LAUGHS First Line: Thirty years ago the young corso in his cups Last Line: Irving feldman,' huh? Just another pretty name' Subject(s): Names; Poetry And Poets TESTING THE WATERS First Line: Daylong and then in dreams this testing Last Line: Not carried away, not left behind THE BATHERS Poem Text First Line: Can there be women alone and no serpent near? Subject(s): Seashore; Women; Desire; Beach; Coast; Shore THE DREAM Poem Text First Line: Once, years after your death, I dreamt Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Death; Selfishness; Nightmares; Dead, The THE GOLDEN SCHLEMIEL Poem Text Subject(s): Honesty; Poverty; Conduct Of Life THE GYMNASTS Poem Text First Line: Legs v-ed out from the groin's nugget Last Line: Bestow a sense of everything Subject(s): Gymnastics & Gymnasts THE INTERRUPTION Poem Text First Line: She'd just gone out onto the stoop, and run down the steps Last Line: From the tidy cup of her palm she would go ahead and sprinkle the raisins in Subject(s): Children; Memory; Relationships; Childhood THE LIFE AND LETTERS Poem Text First Line: He got taken quick. Then he hung around. THE PRIPET MARSHES Poem Text First Line: Often I think of my jewish friends and seize them as they are Last Line: I sink down as though drugged or beaten Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE RETIREMENT Poem Text First Line: Everyone talks here, nobody listens Last Line: To make things come out even, and end when you do Subject(s): Old Age; Retirement THE RUNNERS Poem Text First Line: Here or there hundreds of them, phantom-like, Subject(s): Running And Runners THESE MEMOIRS First Line: Stumbling midnight tipsy in jackson's studio Last Line: This moment, overflowing, flowing, lost.' THEY SAY AND THEY REPEAT First Line: For now.' for the time being,' 'while this lasts Last Line: Forever, while this lasts forever THIS COUPLE STROLLING HERE BESIDE TO A GRAVE, UNQUIETLY First Line: That's true. Often the only amusing thing in a graveyard Last Line: Here lie under their jewish names some jews TO THE SIX MILLION First Line: If there is a god Last Line: And accomopany you in the streets TRUE CLICHE First Line: Blare it, crow it, cluck it, upchuck it, cough Last Line: The true cliche isn't made-it is born VOLUPTAS First Line: Strange to be remembering how Last Line: And I now its voluptuary WEST STREET First Line: Exotic birds of passage, errant bits WHEN WE GO WALKING Poem Text Subject(s): Love WISDOM: NOT FOR BEGINNERS First Line: That would have been paul, our socrates, who Last Line: But know some things I should apologize for WORDS OUT OF PLACE First Line: Somewhere, say, a slip-slopping mash or mush Last Line: Before words were set to water WW1 (WRITING WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE) First Line: When I hit new york it was all getting started Last Line: Are the influences what they used to be? %and just who are the influences today? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? First Line: I favor your enterprise,' the soup ladle says Last Line: And - do you know what I'm saying? - received |
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