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Subject: BREAST CANCER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMAZONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON            Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the rookery of women
Subject(s): Amazons; Breast Cancer; Women


LUMPECTOMY EVE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night I dream of lips
Last Line: If you do not?
Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Breasts; Breast Cancer; Nursing (infants)


MASTECTOMY, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fall of
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Breast Cancer


SURGEON, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He’s sketching the shape
Last Line: Don’t talk to me of heaven
Subject(s): Breast Cancer


THE FEAST, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon tonight is
Subject(s): Breast Cancer