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Subject: BECHET, SIDNEY JOSEPH (1897-1959)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BECAUSE I AM; IN MEM. SIDNEY BECHET, 1897-1959, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I am a memorious old man
Last Line: Out of the reaches of the impermeable night.
Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians


BMP BMP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lugubriously enough they're playing
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians


BMP BMP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lugubriously enough they're playing
Last Line: Just on time for the band to leave together, %headed for the tin roof blues
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians


FOR SIDNEY BECHET, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes
Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians


FOR SIDNEY BECHET, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes
Last Line: And greeted as the natural noise of good, %scattering long-haired grief and scored pity
Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians


TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT, by SADIQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: While sidney bechet was
Last Line: No treatment! No treatment!
Subject(s): African Americans; Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians