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Subject: EATING DISORDERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANOREXIC, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flesh is heretic
Last Line: And sweat and fat and greed
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders; Women


ANOREXIC, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flesh is heretic
Last Line: And sweat and fat and greed
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders; Women


ANOREXIC, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit at my %own table now
Last Line: Almost nothing %at all
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders


BULIMIA, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A kiss has nothing to do with sex
Last Line: But in a dumpster way on the other side of town
Subject(s): Bulimia; Eating Disorders


BULIMIA, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A kiss has nothing to do with sex
Last Line: But in a dumpster way on the other side of town
Subject(s): Bulimia; Eating Disorders


BULIMIA, by JEAN STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: We hug the bowl
Last Line: We bow our heads %we hug the bowl
Subject(s): Bulimia; Eating Disorders; Physical Disabilities


BULIMIC IN SEARCH OF INTIMACY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the secret world of women
Last Line: Curl his tongue around her tears %she would never leave him
Subject(s): Bulimia; Eating Disorders; Psychoanalysis; Relationships


DEDICATION TO HUNGER: 4. THE DEVIATION, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It begins quietly
Subject(s): Eating Disorders; Women


DEDICATION TO HUNGER: 4. THE DEVIATION, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It begins quietly
Last Line: Of which death is the mere by-product
Subject(s): Eating Disorders; Women


EATING DISORDER, by PAT MOON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Please amanda, just take a taste
Last Line: To watch you die is killing me too
Subject(s): Eating Disorders


EATING DISORDER MADONNA, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eats to rid %herself of
Last Line: What is %eating her
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Eating Disorders


ELLEN WEST, by FRANK BIDART    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love sweets
Subject(s): Eating Disorders


JANE, by T. ALAN BROUGHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last summer she was whippet skinny
Last Line: In invisible currents sanely %drifting around the bend
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders; Sickness; Women


SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 11. ANOREXIA, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My husband looked at other women and I
Last Line: Please him and stop breathing altogether
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Death; Eating Disorders; Marriage


WHAT I FOUND ON HER SCAPULA, by PAULA TATARUNIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was very thin. She had been thinner
Last Line: Call me if you need me. And do take care
Subject(s): Eating Disorders