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Subject: ESSAYS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ESSAY: 13 PRESSURE POINTS INSIDE THE SKULL, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: (I was) (previously) incapable of establishing a link between one phenomenon &
Last Line: I wrote recognition to perform in
Subject(s): Bones; Essays; Skulls


ESSAY: AT NIGHT THE AUTOPORTRAIT AT NIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each evening from my bed I calculated & compared
Last Line: Second elbow
Subject(s): Essays; Soul


ESSAY: BEAUTIFUL, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Live soldiers swimming through silver
Last Line: Comma. Brenda's carnival taffy. Yum.
Subject(s): Beauty; Essays


ESSAY: CANTUS INFIRMUS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way to rise to god is to dissipate into particles of light like
Last Line: Giant ys inscribed in strings of light on the face of the earth
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Essays; Philip I, King Of Spain (1478-1506)


ESSAY: COLOR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a magenta inside the snail, a red
Last Line: The round world
Subject(s): Colors; Essays


ESSAY: DELICATELY, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The father pollutes his body and
Last Line: Or small, dark, and beautiful.
Subject(s): Essays; Pollution


ESSAY: I SAID TO MY LEG: BE STILL, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said to my head: be kingly!
Last Line: Of color? The 14 bands of the globe?
Subject(s): Bodies; Essays; Legs


ESSAY: IN THE WORLD THAT WAS SLATED TO BE REAPPORTIONED THAT DAY OR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a crisis in my male domesticity
Last Line: Difficult at all.
Subject(s): Essays; Love - Complaints


ESSAY: OF CANNIBALS, OF THUMBS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What revolves in the thinking disk? What reflects of the eye is due
Last Line: Burning to cover joy's shadow of joy beneath the thumb.
Subject(s): Cannibals; Desire; Essays; Happiness; Joy; Delight


ESSAY: OF SPACE, STAINLESS STEEL, OF GIFTS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Excellent earth, magnet jar, now
Last Line: Touch this axis
Subject(s): Earth; Essays; Geology; World


ESSAY: ON THE WORLD AS WILL OR WILL NOT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Accident, come / from the side of the walk I forgot
Subject(s): Essays; New York City; Taxis; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


ESSAY: SEVEN ASPECTS OF MILKING TIME, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had it in my mind to move
Last Line: & end up in the gutter
Subject(s): Essays; Religion; Theology


ESSAY: THE COMPLETE SENTENCE OF THE LIMBS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was bathing as an individual in something more general
Last Line: I will have to sleep a long time to find them again
Subject(s): Essays; Maritime Law; Navigation; Sea Law


ESSAY: THE HANGING PARADOGS SLIP, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an octave between us
Last Line: To this you, you take it
Subject(s): Cities; Essays; Retail Trade; Urban Life; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


ESSAY: WHEN I THINK OF SEX, A MOIST FOG, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I think of sex, some people
Last Line: Person until I am dead.
Subject(s): Essays; Sex


FOR A VOLUME OF ESSAYS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, with little variation
Last Line: Take it -- with my best good wishes!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Essays


ON A TOO PROLIFIC ESSAYIST, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cruellest torture that a man can know
Last Line: The eternal trickle of this blameless quill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Essays; Writing & Writers


ON MR. HALL'S ESSAYS, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wits that matur'd by time have courted praise
Last Line: As many years as thou hast snatch'd from time.
Subject(s): Essays; Hall, John (1627-1656); Time


REVISIONIST POEM - OCTAVIO PAZ, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is an invention of the spirit the spirit
Last Line: Is an invention of the world
Subject(s): Essays; Poetry & Poets


SCHEHERAZADE, by CALVIN WILLLIAM TRUESDALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The translations at least survived, and the published travel essays, gor
Last Line: He had ever really come into what he was meant to be
Subject(s): Books; Essays; Paper; Publishing; Writing And Writers