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Subject: GARBO, GRETA (1905-1990)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MAN MEETS A WOMAN IN THE STREET, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the separated leaves of shade
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Lorenz, Konrad (1903-1989); Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Schumann-heink, Ernestine (1861-1936); Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)


GARBO, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes never blink
Last Line: She could not, would not, choose another fate
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Gays & Lesbians


GARBO, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes never blink
Last Line: She could not, would not, choose another fate
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Homosexuality


GARBO BEHIND BLACK SCREEN, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Garbo's apartment in new york
Last Line: Just a woman making faces
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990)


GARBO STEPPING IN, by JEAN BALDERSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: For gypsy at minsky's
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990)


GARBOS AND DIETRICHS, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moving like a dream through ibiza
Last Line: To those men they turn into swine
Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Homosexuality


GRETA GARBO, by CHERYL CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I imagine you left the movies at 36
Last Line: Who like it in the ass %yearly on the rhine
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990)


GRETA GARBO AND THE STAR MESSENGER, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her face the preface to water, stirred
Last Line: Bends into the current and is gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Secrets


HARLEMITES TALKING ABOUT MOVIES, 3. GARBO IN NINOTCHKA, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saw it twice honey
Last Line: Xcuse me now: that's funny!
Subject(s): African Americans; Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Motion Pictures


LADDERS LEAN ON THE ELEPHANT EVENING, by CAROLYN STOLOFF    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Garbo tosses a star through her veil and runs %from the window
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990)


MAN MEETS A WOMAN IN THE STREET, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the separated leaves of shade
Last Line: Be the same day, the day of my life
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Lorenz, Konrad (1903-1989); Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Schumann-heink, Ernestine (1861-1936); Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)


ON LEARNING OF THE DEATH OF GRETA GARBO, by ROBERT T. WEBB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking about at four a.M
Last Line: Beauty will die again and again; %truth lives on
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990)


STAR VEHICLES: THE GARBO INDEX, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dead friend vito praised garbo's last scene in queen christina
Last Line: With the tranquililty of all final compositions
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Gays & Lesbians; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


STAR VEHICLES: THE GARBO INDEX, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dead friend vito praised garbo's last scene in queen christina
Last Line: With the tranquillity of all final compositions
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Homosexuality


SWEDE, by TIM DLUGOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Michael friedman's humorous pet name
Last Line: Greta garbo, going into exile %at the end of queen christina
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990)


THE GARBOS AND DIETRICHS, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moving like a dream through ibiza
Last Line: To those men they turn into swine
Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Gays & Lesbians