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Author: JOSEPH, LAWRENCE Matches Found: 94 Joseph, Lawrence Poet's Biography 94 poems available by this author 3-DEC-37 First Line: Not in budapest beside the powerful dark danube ABOUT THIS First Line: I surfaced from my reflections to see Last Line: With high-flying clouds and white heat ADMISSIONS AGAINST INTEREST Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Taking my time, literal as I seemed, crazy Last Line: But sell it cheaply to survive Subject(s): Arab Americans; City & Town Life ADMISSIONS AGAINST INTEREST First Line: Taking my time, literal as I seemed, crazy Last Line: But sell it cheaply to survive AFTER ALL First Line: The truth of knowing Last Line: Gray velvet ricocheted %across the street ALL DAY Poem Text First Line: At four in the morning Last Line: Into the sea Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Family Life; Thomas, Helen (1920-2013) AN AWFUL LOT WAS HAPPENING Poem Text First Line: When you come down to particulars everything's more complicated Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 ANY AND ALL Poem Text First Line: You draw nearer to see her more closely Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys ANY AND ALL First Line: You draw nearer to see her more closely Last Line: Decide for him whether his clauses should be restrictive, %whether to replace every 'any' with 'all' Subject(s): Law And Lawyers AWFUL LOT WAS HAPPENING First Line: When you come down to particulars everything's more complicated Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970 BEFORE OUR EYES First Line: The sky almost transparent, saturated Last Line: Let's just keep to what's before our eyes BETWEEN US Poem Text First Line: What was his name? Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers BETWEEN US First Line: What was his name? Last Line: Wasn't no future %praisin' jesus Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers BROODING First Line: How could I foresee Last Line: A month-old baby %can't open his eyes BY THE WAY First Line: What I saw was impossible CURRICULUM VITAE Poem Text First Line: I might have been born in beirut Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan CURRICULUM VITAE First Line: I might have been born in beirut Last Line: I am as good as the unemployed %who wait in long lines for money Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan DO WHAT YOU CAN Poem Text First Line: In the church of I am she hears there is a time to heal Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life DO WHAT YOU CAN First Line: In the church of I am she hears there is a time to heal Last Line: The judge, looking down, will smile and say, %'then do what you can.' Subject(s): Cities EVEN THE IDIOT MAKES DEALS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: On mack avenue the smell of hot iron closes your eyes Last Line: She knows you'll put a coin into her waiting hand Subject(s): Arab Americans; Detroit, Michigan FACTORY RAT First Line: Hands of the west virginian who insists FLAKE OF LIGHT MOVED First Line: Sunset, for a while Last Line: Watched, as if hypnotized, and more, %much more, than that FOG Poem Text First Line: All day the air was fog Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers FOG First Line: All day the air was fog Last Line: Through smokestacks %into air Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers GENERATION First Line: Matter smashed -- atomic age america -- Last Line: Human form over non-being GREAT SOCIETY First Line: Where my mother prayed for my birth HERE First Line: Pockets puffed with bottles, Last Line: East of this wasteland, %where the towers smoke. I HAD NO MORE TO SAY Poem Text First Line: The last time I saw her Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers I HAD NO MORE TO SAY First Line: The last time I saw her Last Line: Bus ride, nervousness, %the factory Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers I NOTE IN A NOTEBOOK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Pink sunlight, blue sky, snowed-upon january morning Subject(s): Male-female Relationships I PAY THE PRICE Poem Text First Line: Memory slipping more and more Last Line: I pay the price Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Time I PAY THE PRICE First Line: Memory slipping more and more I'VE ALREADY SAID MORE THAT I SHOULD First Line: All that I now is that I know IN A FIT OF MY OWN VIVIDNESS First Line: In a fit, you might say, of my own vividness Last Line: Not tears! This discord enacts no measure IN A MOOD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Less stupid than I seem, less Last Line: Then what, and then again what, unfolded Subject(s): Conduct Of Life IN IT, INTO IT, INSIDE IT, DOWN IN Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: In it, into it, inside it, down in Subject(s): Social Commentary IN THE AGE OF POSTCAPITALISM Recitation by Author First Line: The disabled garment worker Subject(s): Social Commentary IN THE AGE OF POSTCAPITALISM First Line: The disabled garment worker %who explains to his daughter Last Line: This october sixth, in new york city, %during the nineteen eighties IN THE BEGINNING WAS LEBANON IN THE TENTH YEAR OF WAR Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I bend / over the machine. / heat Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers IN THE TENTH YEAR OF WAR First Line: I bend %over the machine. %heat Last Line: I danced before the machine Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers IN THIS TIME First Line: When you don't understand yet INCLINED TO SPEAK Poem Text First Line: I saw that. One woman, her personality Last Line: Inclined to speak only to those closest to us Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Truth IS IT YOU? Poem Text First Line: Where the giant magnet lifts Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers IS IT YOU? First Line: Where the giant magnet lifts Last Line: Your blackest rib? Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers IT'S NOT ME SHOUTING AT NO ONE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Before dawn, on the street again Last Line: To be alone Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentary IT'S NOT ME SHOUTING AT NO ONE First Line: Before dawn, on the street again JUST THAT First Line: So that's it? Just that? No dream Last Line: Part of my element, out of mind, in the flesh LET US PRAY First Line: My name is lawrence joseph LINES IMAGINED TRANSLATED INTO A FOREIGN LANGUAGE First Line: And then the logic of war Last Line: Officially dismissed %the report as 'ridiculous.' LONDON First Line: Aged malt whiskey and cigarettes MAMA REMEMBERS First Line: I tried to do what I was told, made MATERIAL FACTS First Line: On the j train, a gun swung Last Line: On a corner in chinatown MOVEMENT IN THE DISTANCE IS LARGER UP CLOSE First Line: Apart from that, the sun came around Last Line: On the avenue. Precisely. Where we ought to be MY EYES ARE BLACK AS HERS First Line: Much did he see. Slowly MY GRANDMA WEIGHED ALMOST NOTHING First Line: It was that april morning that the weight NOT YET First Line: When my father breathed NOTHING AND NO ONE AND NOWHERE TO GO Poem Text First Line: I've laughed before no one Last Line: And nowhere to go Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers NOTHING AND NO ONE AND NOWHERE TO GO First Line: I've laughed before no one Last Line: And nowhere to go Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers NOW EVENING COMES FAST FROM THE SEA First Line: The east river looks as black Last Line: Now evening comes fast from the sea OCCIDENT-ORIENT EXPRESS First Line: East and west, converged expression Last Line: Set perpendicular into the earth ON NATURE Poem Text First Line: To proceed: whether results are evident Last Line: Her husband drowsing in a chair? Subject(s): Nature; Social Commentary ON NATURE First Line: To proceed: whether results are evident ON THAT SIDE Poem Text First Line: April and may. There, very near Last Line: A memory — so vivid, I close my eyes Subject(s): Time; Memory ONCE AGAIN Recitation by Author OUT OF THE BLUE First Line: Not that we lacked experience Last Line: Disappearing %in a crevice in the sky OVER DARKENING GOLD First Line: So here we are. Thieves stealing from thieves Last Line: Formed over gold, over darkening gold PARTICULAR EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE First Line: Awakened by your body, in the first place Last Line: Contradicted, doubtlessly raving RUBAIYAT First Line: All the stories about killing, burned bones, the smoke SAND NIGGER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In the house in detroit Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life SAND NIGGER First Line: In the house in detroit Last Line: With cousin and brother %against the stranger Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (1) First Line: A manic sense of the economic Last Line: Without any inner disputation SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (2) First Line: So no self-centered anarchism Last Line: Without any inner dispute SOME SORT OF CHRONICLER I AM Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Some sort of chronicler I am, mixing Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SOME SORT OF CHRONICLER I AM First Line: Some sort of chronicler I am, mixing Last Line: From now on it's every man for himself STOP ME IF I'VE TOLD YOU First Line: That year, too, was finished THAT TOO Poem Text Recitation First Line: A long walk up west street along the piers Last Line: The blues and greens fired by crimson are the sea Subject(s): Relationships THAT'S ALL First Line: I work and I remember. I conceive Last Line: I don't know hwy I choose who I am: %I work and I remember, that's all THE BRONZE-GREEN GOLD-GREEN FOREGROUND Poem Text Last Line: Too, in the rain. The code changed again Subject(s): Language THE GAME CHANGED Recitation by Author THE PATTERN-PARALLEL MAP OR GRAPH Poem Text Last Line: An illuminated scroll unrolled on the counter Subject(s): Time THEN First Line: Joseph joseph breathed slower %as if that would stop Last Line: Before you'd realize the voice howling in you %was born then THERE I AM AGAIN Poem Text First Line: I see it again, half darkness in its brown light Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life THERE I AM AGAIN First Line: I see it again, half darkness in its brown light Last Line: Angry, ashamed, and proud as the poor with whom he deals Subject(s): Cities THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENS First Line: This is how it happens, paine THIS MUCH WAS MINE First Line: Saturday morning, the june sun TIME WILL TELL IT SO First Line: A time of comedy sprung Last Line: A figure, realized, %resonates, exhausted by love UNDER A SPELL First Line: Now the governor of the federal reserve bank Last Line: When you turn and look through me UNYIELDINGLY PRESENT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Near the curb behind the police lines Subject(s): Violence VARIATIONS ON VARIATIONS ON A THEME First Line: Winter dragged on. Established remnants Last Line: Both cloudiness and transparency can be painted WHEN YOU'VE BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You breathe yellow smoke, you breathe lead Last Line: As the doors open and no one comes on Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHEN YOU'VE BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH First Line: You breathe yellow smoke, you breathe lead Last Line: You feel the need to destroy, like everyone else, %as the doors open and no comes in WHO TO DENY First Line: I see him before dawn, roused WHOSE PERFORMANCE AM I WATCHING First Line: It's this way, by these words, too much yet still to be proven Last Line: The river's cold. The filtered sunlight insinuating opulence |
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