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Subject: CORNELL, JOSEPH (1903-1972)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CAKE, HAT, PILLOW, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some days I wake up so sad
Last Line: (yours, mine) - who would not like a pillow?
Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Poetry And Poets


CLEO DE MERODE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joseph cornell could not draw, paint, or sculpt, and yet he was a
Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972)


CLEO DE MERODE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joseph cornell could not draw, paint, or sculpt, and yet he was a
Last Line: Cleo de merode, by the way, was a famous f\ballerina and femme %fatale of the 1890's
Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972)


JOSEPH CORNELL, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into a sweeping meticulously
Last Line: Flowers -- of -- near -- distances
Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Sculpture And Sculptors


JOSEPH CORNELL: 1, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His boxes, like
Last Line: Was to make it %as he wanted it
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Sculpture And Sculptors


JOSEPH CORNELL: 2, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He hunted objects
Last Line: Glass feel what %he was feeling
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Sculpture And Sculptors


JOSEPH CORNELL: 3, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He photographed %brides frozen in
Last Line: Benches coney %island in snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Sculpture And Sculptors


JOSEPH CORNELL: 4, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He loved watching
Last Line: Grand central %station, heavenly
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Sculpture And Sculptors


MYSTERIOUS BARRICADES; OR, THE ENCHAINMENTS OF MEMORY, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Surely you have heard this great keyboard piece by couperin
Last Line: The lesson begins
Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Memory


OR, TO HOCUS THE ANIMALS OF THE PURSUERS BY CHANGING THEIR DREAM..., by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold and windy cloud with delicate
Last Line: Joseph cornell knew it well
Subject(s): Books; Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Poetry & Poets; Reading


SHADOW BOXES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Six a.M. I'd be walking those sycamore
Last Line: If only it could remain patient
Subject(s): Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972); Poetry And Poets


UTOPIA PARKWAY, by LYNDA HULL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marble steps cascade like stereopticon
Last Line: Cyngus, the pleiades, one of the graces
Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bacall, Lauren; Carmichael, Hoagy (1899-1981); Cornell, Joseph (1903-1972)