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Subject: HAVANA, CUBA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADOLESCENCIA, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father's work friends, all men
Last Line: Sweeping all ominous thoiughts away
Subject(s): Havana, Cuba; Childhood Memories


BARS, by NICOLAS GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the bars and taverns
Last Line: Next to the sea
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Drinks And Drinking; Friendship; Havana, Cuba


FLOUNCING TOWARD HAVANNA, by KATHRYN NOCERINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carmen miranda in havanna: a movie
Subject(s): Havana, Cuba; Miranda, Carmen (1915-1955)


HAVANA BIRTH, by SUSAN MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Off havana the ocean is green this morning
Last Line: Growing with the singer and the singer's delight
Subject(s): Havana, Cuba


HAVANA DREAMS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dream is a cocktail at sloppy joe's
Last Line: (quien sabe? Who really knows?)
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Havana, Cuba


MAZORRA, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the days of shock treatment
Subject(s): Havana, Cuba; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness


THE CAPTURE OF HAVANA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year 1762 that france and spain
Last Line: And the londoners applauded the british for the honours they had won.
Subject(s): Battleships; Fights; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Havana, Cuba; Victory


THE GREAT CHINESE POETS, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine tu fu and li po as they have come
Last Line: Sucked down in its liquid mouth.
Subject(s): Tu Fu (712-770); Li Po (701-762); Havana, Cuba