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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: SCHWARTZ, LLOYD Matches Found: 104 Schwartz, Lloyd Poet's Biography 104 poems available by this author 78'S Poem Text First Line: Breakable; heavy; clumsy; the end of a side Subject(s): Sound Recordings; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM Poem Text First Line: Hello? / 'oh, hi.' Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Suicide A TRUE POEM Poem Text First Line: I'm working on a poem that's so true, I can't show it to anyone. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ACCOMPLICE First Line: Getting out %after reading, or writing Last Line: A hunting knife -- lying among the utensils %in a kitchen drawer APPARITIONS Poem Text First Line: On christmas eve, the 42nd street station Subject(s): Life BANQUET First Line: I thought I'd fetch a bone for my dog, spike Last Line: Steaks, stews, cones, boxes, still lifes, a nude... %eat it,eat me-art is food CAIRO TRAFFIC: 1. THE DESERT First Line: This is what's left after everything else Last Line: If anything else is left, it's %under all that sand, %or has become sand CAIRO TRAFFIC: 2. WHY? First Line: I never particularly wanted to visit the middle east. The art didn't interest Last Line: Most like a place where a god would deliver his commandments to a moses. %(is there a difference bet CAIRO TRAFFIC: 3. THE MONASTERY First Line: Behind red granite walls just above the foot Last Line: Violet skull-cap ), keeps watch %over all the other bones CAIRO TRAFFIC: 4. THE RIVER First Line: I'm all turned around. We're sailing up the nile--I.E., south. West is on our Last Line: Embracing arms. Across the river is the embroidered shaft of the cairo tower; %beyond that the pyram CAIRO TRAFFIC: 5. CAIRO TRAFFIC First Line: The most dangerous place in the middle east...Especially if you want to cross Last Line: With the extra plate of pigeon. Later, we think how little it would have meant %to us to accept it CAIRO TRAFFIC: 6. PYRAMIDS First Line: They look just like the postcards, yet they're not exactly what I expected. The Last Line: Pointed angels--pointing the way to heaven?--which have just begun their %departure from this world CAIRO TRAFFIC: 7. SPHINXY First Line: A limestone scarf wraps your sore throat; a blanket Last Line: Have the answers to. Tell me your answer! %no...Don't CAIRO TRAFFIC: 8. TEMPLES First Line: Luxor. Karnak Last Line: Blue ceilings (the night sky) swarming with little five-branched stick-figure %stars, homunculi, eac CAIRO TRAFFIC: 9. SO? First Line: New york. Temple of dendur, metropolitan museum of art. In that giant tem- Last Line: The spirit wakes, struggling to remain in this world while the beautiful body %falls away CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: In the imaginary kingdom of my only-childhood, I played all the Subject(s): Children; Childhood CROSSING THE ROCKIES Poem Text First Line: At fort morgan, colorado, six cars line up behind the flashing red lights Subject(s): Rocky Mountain Range CROSSING THE ROCKIES First Line: At fort morgan, colorado, six cars line up behind the flashing red lights Last Line: A dark rumbling - we're over water now - then moving %fasterand even more quietly %further into it Subject(s): Rocky Mountain Range DEAD-BATTERY BLUES First Line: The phone keeps ringing Last Line: It's starting to get light out. %it's still a little dark inside DIGGER Poem Text First Line: Would you believe I went to college? Yeah, Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Prisons & Prisoners; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Convicts DOUBLE LIFE Poem Text First Line: My father was a fundamentalist minister. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Conduct Of Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DREAM DURING MY MOTHER'S RECUPERATION First Line: At 89, my mother is in the hospital, mysteriously losing blood, when suddenly Last Line: What you hear from me, this is me. % let's live and tell these little stories. ESTELLE'S TESTIMONY Poem Text First Line: They said I was 'promiscuous' Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love - Age Differences; Death; Old Age; Dead, The FOURTEEN PEOPLE: ARTIE MATTEOSIAN First Line: This one's my favorite. It's so loving: the generous pink dress Last Line: Anything. Why would anyone want to paint me? Who'd want to look FOURTEEN PEOPLE: DANNY AND MARY KELLEHER First Line: Your intimidating teacher -- bald; birdlike; bell-bottomed; Last Line: Merciless annunciations to his sullen, empty-eyed madonna FOURTEEN PEOPLE: FRANK BIDART First Line: I look like I've had a spike driven down the back Last Line: Monster, stumbling forward with his monstrous grief FOURTEEN PEOPLE: GAIL MAZUR First Line: The knowing eye, barely perceptible under dark shadows Last Line: Into the dark, sees a dark her own beams can't reach FOURTEEN PEOPLE: JANE STRUSS First Line: Now the sun rises, rises so bright Last Line: See what I have seen; see what I see. Listen FOURTEEN PEOPLE: JOYCE PESEROFF First Line: Look at that yellow shirt!' 'banana.' 'no...Canary Last Line: Not about to fall though.' 'no, unassailable.' scary... FOURTEEN PEOPLE: LLOYD SCHWARTZ First Line: Something behind the philosophical glasses' glass Last Line: Something in the eyes has nothing to do with weather FOURTEEN PEOPLE: MARGO LOCKWOOD First Line: The melancholy life-of-the-party,' her familiar rosy flush Last Line: Bowing out with this week's latest, un-secret word: 'fuckoleum!' FOURTEEN PEOPLE: MR. AND MRS. HAMILTON First Line: They're quite a pair. He's the quiet one Last Line: Now all our portraits have the same shadow FOURTEEN PEOPLE: RALPH HAMILTON First Line: It's all in the eyes. The broad, smudged Last Line: With holes poked out only for the eyes FOURTEEN PEOPLE: ROBERT PINSKY First Line: That rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.' Last Line: The competitor maintains, to protect his skill, his sanity, and his art FOURTEEN PEOPLE: TOM JOANIDES First Line: Which of these statements is true Last Line: Everything changes -- give me a minute; (n) none of this is true FRIENDLY SONG First Line: I'm working on a song Last Line: That wakes men up %and lets children sleep GISELA BRUNING First Line: Why shoud I remember now? %more than 20 years ... The paris Last Line: Why can't I picture what it looked like? Why should this %particular gap in my %memory distrub me so GOODNIGHT, GRACIE Poem Text First Line: Home very late from a hollywood party, george and gracie Last Line: Of the author. Subject(s): Acting And Actors; Actors & Actresses; Allen, Gracie (1906-1964); Television; Tv GRIEF Poem Text First Line: My mother is mad at the sun Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF First Line: My mother is mad at the sun Last Line: No room left in my house. %what am I going to do with my grief? Subject(s): Grief HANNAH Poem Text First Line: I walk on hooked rugs; my beds are covered with Subject(s): Homecoming; Family Life; Conduct Of Life; Relatives HE TELLS HIS MOTHER WHAT HE'S WORKING ON First Line: I'm writing a poem about you Last Line: Well, you're my tree. %yes, I'm your tree--you're an apple, I'm a tree HER WALTZ First Line: This is my dream. I'm dancing! Last Line: Once knew how to waltz. %and now I shall bid you goodnight. HOUSE HUNTING First Line: First ad. 2 fam. 10+4 house off Last Line: Awful to have to move -- awful to move away HOUSE HUNTING First Line: Fixed it all myself. Tore out some walls ...' HOW'LL I LEARN MY LINES IF THERE ISN'T ANY SCRIPT? Last Line: How'll I get to heaven? IN THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN QUEENS Poem Text First Line: A stone's throw from my uncle's grave Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews; Graveyards; Judaism IN THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN QUEENS First Line: A stone's throw from my uncle's grave Last Line: On my father's fresh stone, I leave a stone Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews IN THE MIST First Line: On cool, damp evenings Last Line: Toward the house with the light %left in the window INTERIOR MONOLOGUE Poem Text First Line: These rooms . . ./ if I could see them again Subject(s): Home INTERVIEW Poem Text First Line: I thought once I'd like to be a kleptomaniac, Subject(s): Divorce; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LEAVES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Every october it becomes important, no, necessary Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Transience; Renewal; Fall; Impermanence LEAVES First Line: Every october it becomes important, no necessary Last Line: Or something you've felt that also didn't last LITTLE KISSES First Line: My mother is mad at the sun Last Line: See, I know all the words! %(I probably won't remember them tomorrow) LOVE Poem Text First Line: Why live? I never really thought Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Falure; Dead, The LOVE First Line: Why live? I never really thought Last Line: I don't remember, now.' MENTAL CASES Poem Text First Line: --and the second is like unto it, thou shalt love Subject(s): Insanity; Nursing Homes; Voices; Madness; Mental Illness; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living MUG SHOTS Poem Text First Line: In business you have to know people . . . Try selling Subject(s): Social Commentaries NO ORPHEUS First Line: Don't look back!... Last Line: Do we--don't we--have more %(he wishes he knew) %than what we look back to? NOSTALGIA (THE LAKE AT NIGHT) First Line: The black water Last Line: Another light going out (you must have just undressed for bed). %my bare feet on the splintery pier Variant Title(s): Nostalgi ON THE RECENT DEATHS OF HIS FRIEND COLONNA AND HIS LADY LAURA Poem Text First Line: Broken. The high column. The green laurel Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Death; Francesco Petrarca; Dead, The PORNOGRAPHY Poem Text First Line: On his knees, his back to us; the pale honeydew melons of his bare buttocks Subject(s): Love - Erotic PORNOGRAPHY First Line: On his knees, his back to us; the pale honeydew melons of his bare buttocks Last Line: In whatever pleasure they %receive, or give Subject(s): Erotic Love PROVERBS FROM PURGATORY First Line: It was deja vu all over again Last Line: Include me out. %it was deja vu all over again PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA First Line: Hi.' %'hi' %'you ok?' Last Line: The more I need you, the further away you get RECITAL First Line: He sits there, staring into the keyboard RENATO'S DREAM First Line: Such a sweet dream. I dreamed Last Line: Tired, hungry, and cold, I said. %and drummond answered, I too. REPORTS OF MY DEATH: 1. HEROIC MEASURES First Line: My friend deals with each new wrinkle in his illness as if it weren't Last Line: Then he can't write REPORTS OF MY DEATH: 2. A SCARE (1969) First Line: A lump the size of a small walnut appears suddenly under my collar Last Line: I remember thinking: 'a few more days, it would've probably just gone away!' REPORTS OF MY DEATH: 3. REPORTS OF MY DEATH First Line: I'm at a concert, listening to schubert's last quartet. The chilling Last Line: How can I make my comeback from the grave SATIE: TROIS MELODIES Poem Text First Line: The frog on the tumbler-game in the park Subject(s): Trees; Statues; Time SELF-PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: I was sitting in her living room Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Family Life; Relatives SHE FORGETS First Line: The one who told me about the holocaust, who taught me moral distinctions Last Line: Why can't I go home? % what's wrong with me, honey? % why am I here? SHUT-EYE Poem Text First Line: He dreams he's shooting himself in the eye his left eye the Subject(s): Dreams; Suicide; Eyes; Nightmares SHUT-EYE First Line: He dreams he's shooting himself in the eye his left eye the barrel right up Last Line: His trembling finger squeezing the trigger till he almost hears the shot that %opens that blasts ope SIMPLE QUESTION First Line: Can you hear me? Do you / understand Last Line: Of the author. Subject(s): Fathers; Sickness; Illness SIX WORDS Poem Text First Line: Yes / no Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary SIX WORDS First Line: Yes %no %maybe %sometimes %always %never Last Line: Yes no %maybe sometimes %always never SOME NOTES ON MY FATHER Poem Text First Line: Maybe he was happy in paris. He remembers a few french words, Subject(s): Fathers SONG Poem Text First Line: Rain on the lake SONG First Line: Rain on the lake Last Line: The muse amazed %amused -- aroused SONG First Line: Rain on the lake Last Line: The muse amazed %amused aroused SONG OF THE SELF-STIMULATOR Poem Text First Line: Johnny had a steamboat Subject(s): Self-gratification; Sex THE DREAM DURING MY MOTHER'S RECUPERATION Poem Text First Line: Take it out - thirsty - put my teeth in my mouth Last Line: From boulevard Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Sickness; Women; Illness THE RECITAL Poem Text First Line: He sits there, staring into the keyboard-- Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Cancer (disease); Death; Dead, The THE WANDERER Poem Text First Line: I'm talking about what isn't there anymore, Subject(s): Friendship; Family Life; City & Town Life; Farewell; Love; Relatives; Parting THEOCRITUS SCHWARTZ Poem Text First Line: Theo . . . / no one would have to know his real name Subject(s): Children; Names; Childhood TRUE POEM First Line: I'm working on a poem that's so true, I can't show it to anyone Last Line: I keep working on it even though I can never show it to anybody. %I keep working on it even though s TWO CHURCHES (A DREAM) First Line: In the main square, there are two churches, not just one--two Last Line: Yet magnificent. Almost identical, except that one %is locked, and the door to the other is wide ope TWO HORSES (A MEMORY) First Line: You said you had lunch in pittsfield, was it on north street? Last Line: What's there to cry about? %such an old, old memory, why should it make me cry? VERMEERS First Line: When I moved to my new house, I thought I'd lost all my Last Line: Holland). I've never lived in a city without a vermeer VERMEERS: 1. POWER First Line: When I moved to my new house, I thought I'd lost all my vermeer Last Line: Going to ask of me now VERMEERS: 1. THE CONCERT First Line: Three figures: %a girl in silver folds of satin Last Line: One breast exposed; her fingers strumming a lute VERMEERS: 2. PERSONAL REASONS First Line: The women in the paintings -- opening a window, reading a letter Last Line: Certain people I love; especially (this gets more complicated), especially my mother VERMEERS: 2. YOUNG WOMAN PUTTING ON PEARLS First Line: What do we see first Last Line: This is one of the few vermeer painings in perfect condition VERMEERS: 3. OFFICER AND LAUGHING GIRL First Line: Who is this man? I can barely Last Line: Yet doesn't cease to smile VERMEERS: 3. PROFANITY First Line: Their network of contradictions (clarity and mystery: reticence and Last Line: Why must one choose either over the other VERMEERS: 4. RARITY First Line: So few survive (thirty-six, fewer than the number of shakespeare Last Line: Each one -- taken in, loved for itself -- calls into mine each of the others VERMEERS: 4. THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO First Line: In the museum of the history of art Last Line: To paint the laurel wreath VERMEERS: 5. INACCESSIBILITY First Line: The summer of the great retrospctive in europe (including all the Last Line: Into a closed museum. At what wouldn't I stop VERMEERS: 5. WOMAN HOLDING A BALANCE First Line: What is she weighing? Gold Last Line: The light: %the resurrection and the life WE REAL COOL First Line: We real cool. We %left school. We Last Line: Die soon WHO'S ON FIRST Poem Text First Line: You can be so inconsiderate.' Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations WHO'S ON FIRST First Line: You can be so inconsiderate' |
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