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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: HIGHTOWER, SCOTT Matches Found: 36 Hightower, Scott Poet's Biography 36 poems available by this author 52 MANEUVERS First Line: Texas. June, 1952. The twentieth century Last Line: The old tool shed has given way AMAZING GRACE Poem Text First Line: Richard oswald's english respectability Subject(s): Soul AMAZING GRACE First Line: Richard oswald's english respectability Last Line: To account names and read bitter instruments? Subject(s): Soul APOCALYPSE SOLILOQUY Poem Text First Line: I hope my death is not stolen from me Last Line: An appointment kept in a private sea Subject(s): Doomsday APPLICATION OF FORCE First Line: The officiously swathed governor Last Line: Let us be enlightened AT TOLEDO First Line: Here in toledo, we seem, temporarily Last Line: Procession of fire and ash BOHEMIAN LIFE IN A WICKED CITY First Line: In one of today's postcards, sally, a character Last Line: ...Love, stay well, and buy many tables!' BURGLED First Line: One feels the trail of clues is already Last Line: The rocking, the lift, the glide CAPITULATION First Line: We keep asking one another to slink Last Line: Our repetitive and inelastic rituals CHARLES LAUGHTON First Line: I never saw you live on stage Last Line: About verisimilitude, dimensionality, aimlessness, ascent; %about the transforming power of subtext COMMODITY First Line: Here when I see %the huge, intricate, stationary crane Last Line: Everything clearly packed %for freshness reads, 'pull' DIGNITY AT TRUMPETS Poem Text First Line: The declaration of independence Last Line: It is a privilege to heal Subject(s): Poetry & Poets DIM SUM IN PHILADELPHIA First Line: Our hostess translates it for us: 'a little Last Line: Of being watched and wanted DIXIE QUEEN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Tennessee williams knew how Last Line: And red / glass lanterns Subject(s): Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983) FOLLIES First Line: December, 1971. A light snow. The taft hotel. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City GRAFFITI First Line: Embarrassing sexual violence Last Line: Or survived this. Loved HOME DEMONSTRATION First Line: My mother followed my advice %and served a pudding and a trifle Last Line: That she was also generous %& good. Yes. Very, very good INDIAN SUMMERS First Line: More than lush. Loaded. Like a stick of dynamite Last Line: Of wills and scattered rationales JOHN WATERS First Line: Yours is the first face in peter hujar's %portraits of life and death Last Line: Joy - the explosive and sudden revelation of %the presence of being MY FATHER Poem Text First Line: Was a cowboy Last Line: For my own catalog of metaphors Subject(s): Death - Fathers NAIADS Poem Text First Line: A lot of us were upset when it Last Line: Down to bull creek Subject(s): Reality OF A FEATHER AT LAS CODORNICES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The architect of our party cuts Last Line: They are in seville Subject(s): Seville, Spain REMAINDER First Line: I drift here on the bed alone - these are Last Line: Tongue, a faint torquated paraph, %a wing, a shadow SELF-PORTRAIT, COLLAGE First Line: A scrap of used envelope Last Line: A love of order, %if only the order of art Subject(s): Aids (disease); Pittman, Gael (1953-1990); Sickness SHOWING OF THE INSTRUMENTS First Line: There are all those scenes of pagan Last Line: We judge ourselves SPENDING THE NIGHT First Line: Now, in another part of the country Last Line: To rebuff my clumsy fingers SPRING SHEARING First Line: My grandfather ran a shearing crew; knew Last Line: Father and the peaceful, yellow-toothed rig ST. JEROME AND THE ANGEL OF JUDGMENT First Line: It's not as though the subject has just come up Last Line: In this ever rising palimpsest of crime and world TENANT AND OUTSIDER First Line: No crisp white swans glide Last Line: On the banks of a river burns THE FINAL MOVEMENT OF THE POEM First Line: The welter of ambivalence through which each Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TWO TAKEN First Line: In iran, the table of allah Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Iran; Capital Punishment - Minors; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Persia UN CHANT D'AMOUR' Poem Text First Line: Even before you - / at the movies Last Line: Of a busy village street Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Wojnarowocicz, David (1954-1992); Illness UN CHANT D'AMOUR' First Line: Even before you - %at the movies Last Line: To our collective %disintegration Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Wojnarowocicz, David (1954-1992) VISIT WITH AN OLD MODEL AT NORWOOD Poem Text First Line: As you see, I'm Last Line: Weary bones a spell Subject(s): Photography & Photographers WITH AN INSTINCTIVE CERTAINTY OF THE CHARMS OF THE MODISH... First Line: It doesn't look like western turkey Last Line: Cranach, ingeniously crafted by his mind's %living, clever, clear eye WRECKS First Line: No temple or tomb; there is only a coffin Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Dramatists |
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