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Subject: COLD WAR
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DEITIES AND BEASTS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tall atlas, jupiter, hercules, thor
Last Line: Is never mentioned in the press at all
Subject(s): Cold War; Missiles; Guided Missiles; Ballistic Missiles


DEITIES AND BEASTS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tall atlas, jupiter, hercules, thor
Last Line: Is never mentioned in the press at all
Subject(s): Cold War; Missiles


ESCAPE FROM EAST BERLIN, by PETER SEARS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The berlin wall went through our heads
Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Cold War


FUROR BELLICUS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cobray m-11 and the tec-9 along with their relatives and clones
Subject(s): Cold War; Crime & Criminals; Military; Prisons & Prisoners


FUROR BELLICUS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cobray m-11 and the tec-9 along with their relatives and clones
Last Line: Transmute furor bellicus to %mere flame or tear
Subject(s): Cold War; Crime And Criminals; Military; Prisons And Prisoners


LAST, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The unsigned architecture of loneliness
Subject(s): Cold War; History; Relationships; Sons; Historians


OVER THE WALL: BERLIN, MAY 1975, by CHARLES HUBERT SISSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He will go over and tell the king
Last Line: Yet the afternoon sun falls upon faces %less tame than tigers
Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Cold War; Travel


PRAGUE SPRING, by TONY HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A silent scream? The madigral's top note
Last Line: The last snow of this year's late snow thaw %dribbles as spring saliva down his jaw
Subject(s): Cold War; Prague, Czech Republic; Travel


PRAGUE, JANUARY 1964, by INGEBORG BACHMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since that night
Subject(s): Cold War; Prague, Czech Republic


SMALL PARK IN EAST GERMANY: 1969, by GERDA MAYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crumbling and weathered, their features half-erased
Subject(s): Cold War; Germany; Travel


THE RUSSIAN ARMY GOES INTO BAKU, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the ethnic riots start, and the civilized west
Last Line: With an unhappy man
Subject(s): Russia – Army; War; Freedom; Cold War


WE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We ought to drop the bomb at once before
Subject(s): Cold War; United States; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; America; Caste