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Subject: BECKETT, SAMUEL (1906-1989)
Matches Found: 15

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN IMAGE FROM BECKETT, by DEREK MAHON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that instant / there was a sea, far off
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)


BECKETT DEAD IMAGINE, by J. ALLYN ROSSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hear of it washing the dishes
Last Line: Once long enough to utter: ah, %they didn't have the courage to wait
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)


BECKETT REMEMBERED, by MARY JO BANG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the train platform, people wave
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)


BECKETT REMEMBERED, by MARY JO BANG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the train platform, people wave
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)


HOMAGE TO BECKETT, by TOBY LURIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's relentless and undiminished it has no beginning
Last Line: Go on on. %----------nothing more--------------------tosay--------------------on
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)


IMAGE FROM BECKETT, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that instant %there was a sea, far off
Last Line: And light enough, to read it
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)


MATCH POINT, by RONALD ERNEST OVERTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's said beckett
Last Line: Nor the rueful %possibility %of an eternal %deuce
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)


OLD SAM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old sam was on the ball, she said
Last Line: Lyrical as hell
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Waiting; Writing And Writers


ON A PASAGE IN BECKETT'S WATT & ABOUT GEO. MONTGOMERY, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was someone, my life there at that time
Last Line: Of clarity, member, redness, or face
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)


READING BECKETT IN OCTOBER, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great blaze the trees put on: maple, dogwood, birch, oak, beech,
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)


SAMUEL BECKETT CONSIDERS THE GLORIOUS FOURTH, by ROBERT L. TYLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old geezer
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)


SAMUEL BECKETT'S DUBLIN, by DONALD DAVIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When it is cold it stinks, and not till then
Last Line: Who barely living therefore altogether %live till they die; and sweetly smell till then
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Dublin, Ireland


TO HELEN KELLER, by DONALD DAVIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yours was the original freak-out: samuel beckett's
Last Line: Month after month to grope and croak and stammer
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Keller, Helen (1880-1968)


WITHIN A BUDDING, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rich %in %expletive %surprise
Last Line: Pent up for inking %the windswept ruin
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Women - Writers


WRITTEN THE DAY I WAS TO BEGIN A RESIDENCY AT THE STATE PENITENTIARY, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inmates put an acetylene torch to another inmate's face
Last Line: "are ""an ice cube's chance in hell."
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Prisons & Prisoners