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Subject: CAMBODIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMBROSE: NAM, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cloudgatherer %with muscularf tautness
Last Line: How many people were killed in the war, both sides
Subject(s): Cambodia; Communism; Poetry And Poets; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War


BLIND, by ROBERT CORDING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some can make out shadows
Last Line: The light. People go by without faces
Subject(s): Blindness; Cambodia; Women


CAMBODIA, by JAMES FENTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One man shall smile one day and say goodbye
Last Line: And still they die. And still the war goes on
Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War


CAMBODIA, by JOCELYN HOLLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peace now,' the leaves clattered
Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


CAMBODIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My son gabriel was born on may 14, 1970 during the vietnam war, a
Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnam


CAMBODIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My son gabriel was born on may 14, 1970 during the vietnam war, a
Last Line: What does this have to do with cambodia?
Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnam


CHOEURK'S EYES, by BRITTON GILDERSLEEVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She had no choices. %always and forever
Last Line: Until it is all her eyes will see %forever
Subject(s): Blindness; Cambodia; War; Women


DEAD SOLDIERS, by JAMES FENTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When his excellency prince norodom chantaraingsey
Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


DEAD SOLDIERS, by JAMES FENTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When his excellency prince norodom chantaraingsey
Last Line: Either the lunches or the dead soldiers
Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 2. CAMBODIA, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the rats came
Last Line: For a face to match her mirrors'.
Subject(s): Abandonment; Cambodia; Children; Desertion; Childhood


MUSEUM IN KAMPUCHEA, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We went into a museum that use to be a high school
Last Line: The young women who passed by on the street %looked like pagodas
Subject(s): Cambodia; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Torture


ONE AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One came home from forced labor to
Last Line: The fields of where we all are one.
Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Graves; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


SAND, FLIES, AND FISH, by MONG-LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I take a glass of the expiring sun, sipping it
Last Line: Born, where he died. It was probably best that %he didn't see anything else but this sun
Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Fishing And Fishermen; Life; San Francisco; Sea; Vietnam


SECONDS OUT, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After humpty dumpty fell apart
Last Line: And at the speed of light %sons are older than their space-men fathers
Subject(s): Cambodia; Fathers And Sons; Men


SURVIVORS, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They came up to her, strangers in the street
Last Line: Mirrors, for bargirls who ask no questions.
Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Vietnam; Dead, The


THE CAMBODIAN BOX, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver betel box is formed by two geese
Last Line: Mated perfectly as these shining geese.
Subject(s): Cambodia; Carving (arts)


TUOL SLENG: POL POT'S PRISON, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like photographs of dutch schultz which show a slick
Last Line: But all I can do is make them into words.
Subject(s): Cambodia; Photography & Photographers; Prisons & Prisoners


WALL, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I trace the black marble wall of weeping once again
Last Line: They took to howling and tearing at their flesh
Subject(s): Cambodia; Students, Foreign; Suicide; Terror