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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: HIRSCHMAN, JACK Matches Found: 167 Hirschman, Jack Poet's Biography 167 poems available by this author 11-OCT-90 First Line: It was a happy day %when he was born Last Line: Upon an old old glove 1953 First Line: What has character AFTER CONGRESS First Line: Slime senate AND NOW First Line: In this 2x4, tender on down to the soft breathings Last Line: And whisper, when you whisper, what we're coming to, %god! ATHEIST First Line: To say passover is absurd after BALABAN First Line: I ran down the street and into the house smelled Last Line: And when I got up vowed to be %balaban from that day on BASKET First Line: The basket, alone BOOK First Line: I return to the leaves Last Line: Between the covers and the spine BOTTOM LINE BURNING OF LOS ANGELES First Line: Smelled her before the eyes saw her Last Line: Meat for my leap %and I leap BY DAY First Line: The night persists. The fictions held between us Last Line: We palpable pithed strings the mind is soundless of CALL FOR THE LOVE OF THE PEOPLE First Line: The dead alive, the small children CALLIGRAPH First Line: Her hair hysterical, thrown back at the sight Last Line: To put the flower in CHAIN First Line: Talk about your body of doda CHINESE WOMEN CIAO WITH A NEIGHBORHOOD AROUND I First Line: A ciao with a neighborhood COCKROACH First Line: When I returned to my room CORRESPONDENCE OF AMERICANS First Line: I miss those free-wheeling interborough rides Last Line: Bound, for all space, nowhere, clods' CRANE First Line: How did the crane CRIME First Line: The crime wasn't in the subway CROWBAR SONG First Line: And on the dead homeless Last Line: Find a bit of womb in the night. Clean moonglow. Hugs %of solidarity DANCING DAVE: IN MEMORIAM DAVID BRONK, POET First Line: Dancing dave, all of 35, is dead Last Line: Down on a leaf in the park DANTESQUE First Line: A man ran up to me and cried, dante Last Line: And away we flew DARK MONDAY First Line: Listening to billie DAY OF THE DEAD First Line: The woman, as I walked by Last Line: Home to all homeless lovers DEAD ANY OLD HOW DEEP MEMORY I First Line: The weathered wood DEEP MEMORY II First Line: I dreamed today at the edge of waking beside you DEEP MEMORY III First Line: Looking up DOPE First Line: You toke and then talk Last Line: What the world is like %without you DREAD-BLOODED AMERICAN First Line: To perpetuate EL First Line: The room was dark but not yet black Last Line: She was in the room beyond her burning EL SALVADOR First Line: They would slit open ...' ENDLESS THRESHOLD First Line: The fears EUROPE First Line: You more powerful %than all the visions Last Line: Long bleeding friends %made into visible song EZRA DOG First Line: Did you say ezra Last Line: And we don't sell the people FIVE First Line: You move from a repose Last Line: Slow filling up of %room FLEA'S KNEES First Line: A flea's FOR DYLAN THOMAS First Line: That wind, that wind of water vowels Last Line: Of the choir of the bellringing dead FOUR First Line: You come into a white room Last Line: So many memorables, %drying FRANZ KLINE First Line: Wanted to paint. Come Last Line: Is smiling at the passing comments FUGUE First Line: To the beloved %memory of johann Last Line: Even of %saints GARDEN First Line: The fathers we run across, the brothers we need Last Line: Out of a valise at the entrance GARDENIA First Line: That woman walking talking to herself Last Line: And every single one of their syllables is heard GHETTO First Line: Men fight. With their fists in the balls of their mouths Last Line: At the beginning and the end of all %our brag GRAFFITI First Line: The scraped chinatown wall GRAIN OF RICE First Line: At the lip GROUNDING ARCANE First Line: The truth %of us helps the stillness outside Last Line: Paths now strangely for %the first time vast GUATEMALA First Line: Through ten greek women GUERRILLAS First Line: In the mountain caves they sleep Last Line: Bedpost of bayonet, %pillow of steel HAITI Poem Text First Line: One day in the future these sounds are seeds of Subject(s): Haiti; Politics & Government HAITI First Line: One day in the future these sounds are seeds of Last Line: The boundless, and the maize amaze the sky upon waking %for as long as humanity is Subject(s): Haiti; Politics HAPPINESS First Line: There's a happiness, a joy Last Line: Without that happiness HEADLANDS First Line: One went off to be Last Line: Told by rainbows HOMAGE TO BEN MOLOISE, SOUTH AFRICAN POET First Line: When a poet HOME First Line: Winter has come Last Line: On a crutch on a rainy sidewalk HOW SHOCKING First Line: How shocking the total HUMAN INTERLUDE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: She was standing against / the wall near Last Line: About the drowning money Subject(s): Begging & Beggars HUMAN INTERLUDE First Line: She was standing against %the wall near Last Line: On the orange lake %above the drowning money Subject(s): Politics HYMN First Line: I am at home Last Line: The lamp %of the %poem IKON First Line: His howl grabbed me by my high intangibles Last Line: And wake to name the things around by heart IN MEMORIAM ERNEST HEMINGWAY First Line: Lightning-runs down the midnight %dakota sky Last Line: I drove slowly through the streets to the end IN MEMORIAM, RAY THOMPSON (1943-1990) Poem Text First Line: Of the streets, / of begging hands and windblown cardboard Last Line: Never-ending memory of his ascendings Subject(s): San Francisco; Homeless; Poetry & Poets IN MEMORIAM, RAY THOMPSON (1943-1990) First Line: Of the streets, %of begging hands and windblown cardboard Last Line: Never-ending memory of his ascendings Subject(s): Politics INTERNATIONAL HOTEL First Line: When I finally ran through the cordon with the others Last Line: These many years after, and write: long live the I %hotel! IRANCONTRASCAM First Line: Worms, military worms defensing their wormhood IRISH BROGUE First Line: If it were less than a river rushing through fingers Last Line: And the spawn of morning-glories upstreaming IS First Line: It is what I know of you IT - STARES First Line: The cherokee's first word JACKET First Line: All day JACKSON POLLOCK First Line: He met it straight Last Line: Dead white in the center %he spatters against JESSE First Line: Keep me away from that bitch, he said, I mean Last Line: O when am I gonna get to the usa? JIVA First Line: Our indian friend JULY 4TH EVE 1990 First Line: Walking along downtown geary st. Last Line: As we walked through san francisco JUNETEENTH First Line: In kinopravda 21 KIDSKIN First Line: That feeling - all day almost LET THE RAILSPLITTER AWAKE First Line: It was brown and white Last Line: And began my inner %hearing LITERACY OF NICARAGUA First Line: Before I ever arrived in nicaragua LONDON First Line: The dignity of london lies deep with humiliations %contained Last Line: Goes up and up and up and never comes down LOVE POEM First Line: Bliss of all blisses Last Line: Of all blisses. Untranslatable MADE IN HAITI MOTHER First Line: We are not in this world Last Line: Through it, %tiniest hand, tiniest star MURDER OF GIORDANO BRUNO First Line: He began to heaven Last Line: Zeroing numberless %still NELLIE First Line: After his shouts, the strops, her screams, the thrown things Last Line: Mrs. Hirschman' and 'hi, jackie. My, how you've grown!' NEW PALESTINE ARCANE First Line: Just a stone's throw NHR (NAHAR) First Line: The oil came %in the form of my sister shekhina Last Line: With the real thin bones of the rainbow %body NICARAGUA First Line: And where the dead heart Last Line: Around the lakes of simple water NIGHT First Line: There is a night that does not fall Last Line: We smell that night of death, which triumphed and died, %andthe time it will take %to die of it: %th NIGHTSCAPE I First Line: You see them NIGHTSCAPE II First Line: I wonder NY, NY First Line: It's big %it's ugly Last Line: Never never %never OLD BLACK SHOE SONG First Line: Two nights ago OLD WOMAN First Line: Bus driver and I understand Last Line: Child near the end ON A LINE BY WHITMAN First Line: Suddenly there are no dead I want to remember Last Line: When it comes to the body's poor old road, %every one must be a touch ON THE DEATH OF WILLEM DE KOONING, AMERICAN PAINTER First Line: When I think of the victories %we must win Last Line: Re-begin belonging to the dream %of humanity again ON WRITING POEMS DIRECTLY ON A TYPEWRITER... First Line: With sudden unthought Last Line: How much it costs and when can I get it %and wha'ts the use? ONE NIGHT First Line: One night, many north beach years ago Last Line: No more vietnams ONWARD AND UPWARD First Line: A three year old girl OPEN GATE First Line: When I came to san francisco Last Line: Wasn't that a poet made of bright and shining tears? PAINTING First Line: So there it is Last Line: Do we acclaim the removal of the painting? %emphatically, provocativley %yes PARIS First Line: Through the window from inside Last Line: America %and gives it away POEM FOR THE MILLENNIUM First Line: Amid history's dust Last Line: The way it was meant to beat POINT LOBOS First Line: The cypress tree, how long standing (just so Last Line: As the sun falls, a shutter, into the sea PORTRAIT First Line: You were always water to me PRICELESS RADIANCE First Line: What did they want, most of all RABBIT First Line: A rabbit hops away into the bush RAY CHARLES First Line: Sat down on a bench in venice late november of the war Last Line: Shot of a shout out of the dark mouth who made you a %lover RECOGNITION #2 First Line: I know it was her %sigourney Last Line: The way, across the drink, %just look outside REMEMBER First Line: Do you weep suddenly, unexpectedly REQUIEM FOR THE WAR DEAD First Line: We will not know, we've been told, who they are Last Line: The no-one's rose %of the wars' homeless RUNNING POEM First Line: I want to ride the prarie of your eyelids Last Line: To feel you is to open the eyes of any jail %with a feather SACRIFICIAL LAMB First Line: As I slept I heard Last Line: Where she flung herself %one garment-demented day SAFE SALT POINT First Line: I was reading of the albanian partisans SCISSORS First Line: A second SELF-PORTRAIT First Line: Sitting on a SOMETHING BASIC First Line: Something basic like night Last Line: Governor of the state of things %still possibly human SOUL OF A PENCIL First Line: With all the mustard of earthquake I say Last Line: Between the bleeding %clench of our hands SPIRALS First Line: Onward and upward, %the smoke from the chimneys %spirals Last Line: They'll %arise SQUATTERS First Line: Doorways I have passed STREETUNE First Line: It was just SUNSONG First Line: Sun, good SWEATING BULLETS First Line: And they said, cuttheshit, we can talk faster THAT'S ALL First Line: Sitting on the grass with sarah THE TWIN TOWERS ARCANE Poem Text First Line: Such mourning as we Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 THING-COMMODITY First Line: The spirit doesn't move very far THIS I KNOW THIS NERUDA EARTH Poem Text First Line: Sitting against a treetrunk in dolores park Subject(s): Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973); Politics & Government THIS NERUDA EARTH First Line: Sitting against a treetrunk in dolores park Last Line: Movement, so much space in an inch. This %neruda earth Subject(s): Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973); Politics THREE First Line: The tree outside the window Last Line: I'm aching. %come here TO JULIAN BECK First Line: In a time when Last Line: And blazoned itself on it %with your five arms TONIGHT First Line: I lay beside you and you were whore Last Line: The thrilled breast at my tongue I will not betray TORNADO Poem Text First Line: Amid shambles blown, blown pages of a gideon Subject(s): Tornadoes TORNADO First Line: Amid shambles blown, blown pages of a gideon Last Line: About the swindging tail of the dragon that snapped Subject(s): Tornadoes TOWARD DOWN First Line: No longer the singular we two wedded in bedrock Last Line: In the ultimate light, ultimately base TRANSFIGURATION Poem Text First Line: I am peasant Subject(s): Love TRANSFIGURATION First Line: I am peasant Last Line: Your face is where I see forever Subject(s): Love TREMOR First Line: Two young guys Last Line: And their generation %and the generation before theirs had been robbed, %and I unite with the coming TURKEY EATEN TWILIGHT First Line: The swiftly low TWIN TOWERS ARCANE First Line: Such mourning as we Last Line: Hanging in mid-air Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNDERGROUND First Line: So clearly that the primal vowels UNDONE DAY First Line: You think I like being a dime bag in a doorway? Last Line: Going from one key to another %in search of the outside of in Subject(s): Homeless; Politics UNITE Poem Text First Line: In a hundred, no, Last Line: Come on! It's spring! Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Spring UNITY First Line: A violinbow UNNAMEABLE First Line: There is a word %for the unobstructed bliss Last Line: Forever blot %into indelible tones VARIATION ON A SPIRITUAL First Line: Steal away, steal away Last Line: Get your hands on %in the ol' safeway VENICE First Line: There are a bunch of mexican kids playing Last Line: And is moved and sings VILLAGE POEM First Line: Albinoni's %adagio for strings always in me when Last Line: One has talked to since the renaissance VIMBA First Line: Now we are going to take the land Last Line: And mere dead meat VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY First Line: You, thunderer and swirl of Last Line: Armed struggles with your dream W. C. FIELDS First Line: By jove, my glowworm dove my chickadee death's Last Line: By some mischance omitted the paprika? WANTED YOU TO KNOW IT First Line: I was leaning against a desktop Last Line: Wanted you %to know it WATCH OUT FOR THE SPIRIT VENDORS First Line: Who shuts the gates to the mouth WEEPING First Line: Walking to my room from the park Last Line: Of smoke and poisons and violence %that we are forced every day %to lug along with our bodes %into t WHAT CAN STOP IT First Line: Along the gutter first, then on the sidewalk WHATEVER IT'S CALLED First Line: I snow before my time Last Line: I fall and fall I slowly cover all %with my black breaths WHEN SHE IS TYPSY First Line: I am the child of people WHEN WE TEAR TOMORROW OPEN First Line: When there aren't enough pencils to go 'round Last Line: We who have mastered %the smithereens WHOLE SHOT First Line: Most, given the death we've all been given Last Line: The kid is dead. %long live the kid! WILDEBEEST First Line: You said, as we watched Last Line: Wildebeest outside. And so, I suppose, was I WORDS ON THE WING First Line: She left the baby by the open window ...' WORKER'S POEM First Line: You whose brows are knit Last Line: Shoe-balance of the street WRITING ON THE WALL First Line: A delicate wisp of X L E B First Line: From the top here Last Line: Piece of bread? %dostoyevsky? XILOTL First Line: Xihualhuian olloque yaoyoaque Last Line: We will be with you tomorrow when we strike! ZOHARA First Line: Once more it seems - far which is - and other - another place Last Line: Her dark - her %green outspreading |
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