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Subject: GORDON, DEXTER (1923-1990)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BROADWAY! BROADWAY!, by GILBERT SORRENTINO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Halloween is black and orange
Last Line: A black velvet an %orange corona corona
Subject(s): Gordon, Dexter (1923-1990); Jazz; Music And Musicians


DEXTER GORDON: COPENHAGEN/AVERY FISHER HALL, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last time I listened I turned thirty-six
Last Line: Leaving nothing left to play.
Subject(s): Gordon, Dexter (1923-1990); Memory; Music & Musicians; Saxophones


FEBRUARY IN SYDNEY, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dexter gordon's tenor sax
Last Line: To scream for help through a horn
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Gordon, Dexter (1923-1990); Jazz; Music And Musicians


TO DEXTER GORDON, by JOHN WYLAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: A sax player in washington station
Last Line: Pulling on a cigarette, breathing his prize
Subject(s): Gordon, Dexter (1923-1990); Music And Musicians