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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAPELLA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ms. Steiger said, write about who you are.
Last Line: I am singing out
Subject(s): Chicanos; Identity; Self; Mexican Americans


A POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are burning
Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism


ACTING, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the best sense
Last Line: And become.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Identity


AFRIKAN FLAG, by DEIDRA SUWANEE DEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: When she was a child
Last Line: Making them accept their blame
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Identity


AFTER LOVE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Afterwards, the compromise
Last Line: The wolf, the mongering wolf %who stands outside the self %lay lightly down, and slept
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Identity


AGONY. AS NOW, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am inside someone %who hates me
Last Line: Inside it. And that thing %screams
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Identity; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


AN AGONY. AS NOW, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am inside someone / who hates me
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Identity; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


AND WHAT'S YOUR DERIVATIONAL PROFILE?, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whammo ammo, the ammo of choice
Last Line: Some time next year
Subject(s): Identity


APPREHENDEE THEN EXITED VEE-HICLE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorry, said the cop who had shot me
Subject(s): Identity; Police; Wit & Humor


ARTIST, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: To liberate myself %I shall tell a story
Last Line: And won't get a pulitzer prize %for simply surviving
Subject(s): Identity; Women


AS A BLADE OF GRASS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My color
Last Line: Pointing %to the stars
Subject(s): Identity


AT DAYBREAK, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the train window at daybreak
Last Line: The train picking up speed
Subject(s): Identity; Morning


BABBLING, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cabralism. The civiliation of the donees. The willing
Last Line: Dance. The vegatation. Brazilwood
Subject(s): Brazil; Ethnic Identity; History; Poetry And Poets


BEING SOMEBODY, by EDWIN HONIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: He had need of a way %to be himself
Last Line: Of course he was wrong-- %but what if he was %completely somebody else?
Subject(s): Identity


BENHAM'S DISK: 3. CHROMATOPHORE, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beside an abandoned mine
Last Line: Salt, tenderness, heat, and insubstantial light: %the skin's vocabulary
Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Identity; Skin


BESIDE MILL RIVER, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When my key sticks in the neighbor's
Last Line: High-rise of sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Houses; Identity; Neighbors


BIRCH CANOE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red men embraced my body's whiteness
Last Line: At home in the fish's fallen heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Identity; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


BITTERS, by ROSE PORTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why do I keep remembering
Last Line: To remember?
Subject(s): Identity


BLUES SUITE, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black %bitter %coffee
Last Line: Please don't panic
Subject(s): Identity; Women


CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag
Last Line: Which a beacon mesmerically burns with the stars of a translucent imminence
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues


COME TO THINK OF IT, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who you are
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Identity; Introspection; Nature; Self


CONFEDERATE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He doesn't look like a citadel cadet
Variant Title(s): No Bumper Sticker
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; India


CONFEDERATE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He doesn't look like a citadel cadet
Last Line: On my face never turned me porcelain
Variant Title(s): No Bumper Sticke
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; India


COUSIN ELLA GOES TO TOWN, by GEORGE ELLA LYON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now you have to promise
Subject(s): Family Life; Identity


DEAR GOD, / I AM DYING, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
Last Line: All of my friends %are doing shows
Subject(s): Identity; Women


DO NOT BEAR MALICE TOWARD THE THATCH, by MICAH ICHEGBEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: They have killed a great animal with the mouth for me!
Last Line: One, do not bear malice toward agana, your father's son
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Igede (african People)


DOOR TO THE SECOND INFINITY, by ROBERT DESNOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The inkwell periscope lies in wait around the bend
Last Line: With a direct line / to fear
Subject(s): Surrealism; Death; Identity; Poetry & Poets


DOUBLE DUTCH, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dutch on both sides of his family tree-now I can
Last Line: I'm dutch.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Identity; Nations; Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People


DREAM OF MYSELF AS A FISH, by DANUTA VIDALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two lines drew me
Last Line: My own
Subject(s): Dreams; Fishing And Fishermen; Identity


ELEGY, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: A gun shoved to my head
Last Line: Flying from the roof of a tenement
Subject(s): Identity; Women


EXISTING LIGHT; FOR LEE NYE, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A picture is worth a thousand words
Last Line: Where I stood, half woman, half nun, exposed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Identity; Nuns; Secrets


EXITS AND ENTRANCES, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through random doors we wandered
Last Line: But armed with the invincible sword and shield %of our own names and faces
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Identity


EYES ON THE PRIZE, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shrouded in this circle of flames
Last Line: Do you hear me? %you are free
Subject(s): Identity; Women


FACE YOU LOOK OUT OF, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Your lover looks into
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Faces; Identity; Love - Nature Of; Nature


FINAL SOLUTION, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night in your arms
Last Line: There will be a final solution
Subject(s): Identity; Women


FRANCE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half artist and half anchorite
Last Line: Jeanne d'arc!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): France; Identity; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Nations; War


GRANDMOTHER GRANT, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the rejected lies of the new york foundling
Last Line: Here is my claim. I need to come into my own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Identity; Mothers & Daughters; Nuns


HELPFUL HINTS FOR AN ASPIRING MARTYR, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Find someone unable to assist themselves
Last Line: Build a wall of resentment around you %repeat pattern
Subject(s): Identity; Women


HILLS, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Overhead in the paris sky
Last Line: And all the fragrance of the rose
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Identity; Paris, France


HISTORY HASN'T TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT REVOLUTIONARIES, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Is what she felt
Subject(s): Identity; Women


HOLD THE WIRE, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the doorbell rings and we think we were followed
Subject(s): Identity


HUMAN MAP, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You will be happy to know someone has asked our cells to tell
Last Line: Our bodies' code will crack. They will have their map
Subject(s): Blood; Dna; Ethnic Identity; Science


I AM NOT I, by PETER TURRINI    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Identity


I COULD HAVE BEEN LORD DACRE, by PETER NORMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I could have been lord dacre or a balalaika-maker
Last Line: But I'm only jeffrey archer and I'll never win the booker!
Subject(s): Identity; Tongue Twisters


I HAVEN'T TOLD YOU, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And the world built an arc %of our tears
Subject(s): Identity; Women


I.D. BRACELETS, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside the kitchen window, even the flimsy birds
Last Line: How do you put your hand through them
Subject(s): Identity; Introspection


IDENTITY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: But the eye of god
Last Line: That is his own bad eyesight.
Subject(s): Identity; Mankind; Men; Self; Human Race


IDENTITY CARD, by MAHMOUD DARWISH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Put it on record %I am an arab
Last Line: Beware, beware of my hunger %and of my anger
Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Middle East - Conflicts


IDENTITY CARD, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He who walks motionless through time with
Subject(s): Identity


IDENTITY CARD, by SUSAN TICHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a living I pick apples
Last Line: For a living I am insomniac %and drunk--all the time-- %likea bee in a wet spring bloom
Subject(s): Identity


IDENTITY CRISIS, by PHILIP ANTHONY WATERHOUSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The package arrived five years ago
Last Line: Nonsense, of course, I know who %I am. Of course
Subject(s): Identity; Writing And Writers


IF I STAND IN MY WINDOW, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Praying in tongues
Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Identity; Nudity


IF I WERE YOU, by CARRIE BURRINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you were I, and I were you
Last Line: If you were I, and I were you!
Subject(s): Identity


IMAGINE BEING MORE AFRAID OF FREEDOM THAN SLAVERY, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: The saddest thing in the world
Last Line: And ultimately go where I want
Subject(s): Identity; Women


IN PASSING, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From a half block off I see you coming,
Subject(s): Hope; Identity; Memory; Optimism


IN THE FIRST STANZA, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, I tell you who I am
Last Line: I tell you who I am.
Subject(s): Identity; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


INCEST, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father wants to f... Me
Last Line: When truth is too hard %to face
Subject(s): Identity; Women


INDIVIDUALITY, by RUTH ROWLETT CHURCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tree that stands alone - in majesty
Last Line: As to the ones who stand alone supreme.
Subject(s): Identity


INTERVALS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who/am I
Subject(s): Identity


ISTANBUL, by ZEHRA CIRAC    Poem Source                    
First Line: From istanbul to istanbul
Last Line: And search for instanbul
Subject(s): Identity; Istanbul, Turkey


IT IS NOT A NEW AGE, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: When a gay man is beaten to death
Last Line: It is not a new age
Subject(s): Identity; Women


JEALOUSY, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing prepared me
Last Line: You are a woman I loved %a long time ago
Subject(s): Identity; Women


KEEPING MY NAME, by LINDA MIZEJEWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love shouldn't make it vanish
Last Line: Of the plucked-out ribs
Subject(s): Identity; Names; Women


KNOWING, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We furthest away from our african mother
Last Line: Our differences are our blessings
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Culture Conflict; Ethnic Identity; Women


LANGUAGES I'VE NEVER LEARNED, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: She collected women like trophies
Last Line: And I started speaking in %languages I've never learned
Subject(s): Identity; Women


LET'S PRESERVE IGEDE, by MICAH ICHEGBEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I pay my respects to you, to start with
Last Line: I will speak my father's igede
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Igede (african People)


LOOK, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And record them in the albums of life
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Identity; Photography And Photographers; Pictures


LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 20, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is there? Me
Last Line: And we are us
Subject(s): Identity; Relationships; Self


MANE STORY, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Straight hair, black hair, brown hair, coarse hair, horse hair
Last Line: Over paper is the sound of seeds tumbling inside a dry gourd
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Native Americans - Women


MIRROR, by ALICE PHELPS RIDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am not what I was
Last Line: Because of the past and the future.
Subject(s): Identity


MON SECRET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Je demande qu'on me doone
Last Line: Arrangera tout pour mon bien
Subject(s): Identity; Psychiatric Hospitals; Secrets


MONOLOGUE TO GOD, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every time I gain some ground
Last Line: In having her suffer
Subject(s): Identity; Women


MOTHER TONGUES-III, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just think, all those tongues
Last Line: People of africa, were %standing upright
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art And Artists; Ethnic Identity; Poetry And Poets; Rwanda; U.s. - Race Relations


MULAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tsiek tsiek and again tsiek tsiek
Last Line: How can I tell if I am he or she?
Subject(s): Homecoming; Identity; Soldiers; Women


MULTIPLE IDENTITY QUESTIONNAIRE, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a jew? A nice jewish boy?
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Jews; Buddhism; Self; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


MY GUEST, by BENEDICT AUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A stranger %lives in my room
Last Line: So as not to disturb %his tranquility
Subject(s): Identity; Self; Self-consciousness


MY LAST NAME, by NICOLAS GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ever since school
Last Line: Foreign and free as the air
Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors And Ancestry; Ethnic Identity; Freedom; Slavery


MY NAME, by JOHN MINCZESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My name arived from poland in 1910 stowed away in the engine room
Last Line: Given it years of pain. My name has forgotten how to cry
Subject(s): Identity; Immigrants; Names; Poland


MY SECRET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I demand that they give me a bed
Last Line: And arrange things for my welfare
Subject(s): Identity; Psychiatric Hospitals; Secrets


MY SKELETON, MY RIVAL, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Interesting that I have to live with my skeleton
Last Line: And I its friend, shielding it from harm
Subject(s): Skeletons; Identity; Death; Dead, The


MYSELF I SING, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Me! He says, hand on his chest
Subject(s): Self-reliance; Identity; Americans


NAMELESS WOMAN, by NO CHUN-MYUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish to be a nameless woman
Last Line: I shall be happier than a queen
Subject(s): Identity; Women


NATIVE PRIDE, by ALICIA SWIMMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is something on my mind
Last Line: Or experience crazy horse's wrath
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Racism


NEW YORK, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: They came from suburbs
Last Line: As if they could answer %why
Subject(s): Identity; Women


NOT LIKE A SOCK. THE ONE, by MARY MAHER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And looks for in water
Subject(s): Identity; Riddles


NOT THINKING OF HIMSELF, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today,' he said to the mirror, 'the person I am inside of'
Last Line: Might give him a bigger head start
Subject(s): Identity


NOTHING IS TAKEN THAT IS NOT GIVEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rap beat of arrested development flared through the red
Last Line: Nothing was taken that was not given
Subject(s): Anthropology; Ethnic Identity; Explorers; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel


PARITY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My uncle believed he had
Subject(s): Character; Identity; Self


PARITY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My uncle believed he had
Last Line: And go about his business
Subject(s): Character; Identity; Self


PLANET OF THE APES, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: On saturday afternoons
Last Line: Planet of the apes
Subject(s): Identity; Women


POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are burning
Last Line: You have used our skulls %for ashtrays
Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights


PRECIOUS CRAZY GIRL GIGGLES, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Collard greens, bluefish, brown rice
Last Line: And kiss %the morning we met
Subject(s): Identity; Women


PUNISHMENT, by KIM KWANG-SUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: I, number 2,223 %draped in the garb of a prisoner
Last Line: As for me, though you give me your country, I'll spurn it
Subject(s): Human Rights; Identity; Prisons And Prisoners; Punishment


PUSHING ENDS, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: As something that fosters %the beautiful
Subject(s): Identity; Poetry And Poets


RAPUNZEL, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rapunzel was a sister
Last Line: And she did not need any rescuing
Subject(s): Identity; Women


RECOGNITION, by MIRIAM TEICHNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: So-you have 'recognized' the jew?
Last Line: "since, wisely, now you ""recognize"" the jew."
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Judaism; Arab-israeli Conflict


REPUBLICANS THINK THAT ALL OVER THE WORLD, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than they are. It's largely true
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Nature; Politics


REVOLUTIONARY, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Psychotherapy is indulgent
Last Line: Still can't control anyone %except myself
Subject(s): Identity; Women


RIDE TO THE WEDDING, by PHEBUS ETIENNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I said goodbye to another piece of childhood
Last Line: I hid myself, as if defending what I am
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Growth; Tolerance


RUNNING ACROSS TO THE LOT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our fathers were dead and %our brothers were dying
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Despair; Ethnic Identity; Slavery


SAY PARDON TO A BUM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And follow your own will / in the open spaces ahead
Subject(s): Liberty; Identity; Begging & Beggars


SECOND-HAND COAT, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I feel / in her pockets; she wore nice cotton gloves,
Subject(s): Identity


SECOND-HAND COAT, by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I feel
Last Line: Get your purse, have you got your keys?
Subject(s): Identity


SELF AND SOUL TAKE TWO, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My hair was black as night sea
Last Line: In my name and a red door to the house
Subject(s): Identity; Self; Soul


SELF-DEPENDENCE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weary of myself, and sick of asking
Last Line: "who finds himself, loses his misery!"
Subject(s): Identity; Self-reliance


SELF-PORTRAIT, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I resemble everyone
Last Line: Often signed in a corner %by my father
Subject(s): Identity


SEVEN SIDES AND SEVEN SYLLABLES; FOR AIMEE CESAIRE AND PIERRE EMMANUEL, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happen you come on your own
Last Line: With this, my derisive voice.
Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Negritude (literary Movement); Poetry & Poets


SILVER BADGE, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kim had black velvet skin
Last Line: Standing on the glistening concrete %of boston's combat zone
Subject(s): Identity; Women


SOGNO DI MI STESSA COME PESCE, by DANUTA VIDALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Da due lenze ero attratta
Last Line: Che non era mio
Subject(s): Dreams; Fishing And Fishermen; Identity


SOMEONE ELSE, by GAIL RIXEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is always someone else
Last Line: Of a hundred, you know
Subject(s): Mistaken Identity


SONG OF THE ROUND MEN, by PALMER. MICHAEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The round and sad-eyed man puffed cigars as if
Subject(s): Grief; Identity; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET TO MY FRIEND, WITH AN IDENTITY DISC, by WILFRED OWEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If ever I had dreamed of my dead name
Last Line: Until the name grow blurred and fade away.
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Identity; Soldiers' Writings


SPEAKING TREE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great alexander sailing was from his true course turned
Last Line: It calls your name. It tells what we mean
Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Identity; Trees


STAR VEHICLES: THE GARBO INDEX, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem 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


STEW, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: California lilac, ceanothus, embraced
Last Line: And looking towards the stew
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Guests; Identity; Loss


STILL DO I KEEP MY LOOK, MY IDENTITY €¦, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each body has its art, its precious prescribed
Subject(s): Identity


STORYVILLE DIARY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot now remember the first word
Subject(s): Bellocq, E. J.; Fathers; Identity; Nudity; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Prostitution; Storyville, New Orleans; Nakedness; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


STRANGER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking as I've looked before
Last Line: The letters of my name are written under the lids %of the newborn child
Subject(s): Identity


STRETCH MARKS AND CELLULITE, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mirror, mirror, on the wall
Last Line: And mothers don't always %regain their shapes
Subject(s): Identity; Women


TEACHING, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can tell an abused kid
Last Line: And questions not answered %but asked
Subject(s): Identity; Women


TEX-MEX, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moonlight softens the hardwood
Last Line: Home with the wrong gigi
Subject(s): Identity


THANK YOU, by MICAH ICHEGBEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father of children, I welcome you
Last Line: This is our common home
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Gratitude; Igede (african People)


THAT I COULD BE ONE OF YOU, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: That I could be one of you, humble of the earth, mute of being
Last Line: And be revealed again in the light of one man's eye and form of %his face
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Identity


THE CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 20, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is there? Me
Last Line: And we are us
Subject(s): Identity; Relationships; Self


THE MOURNING BRIDE, by WILLIAM CONGREVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time has been when plays were not so plenty
Last Line: Which was an offering to the sex designed.
Subject(s): Impostors & Imposture; Mistaken Identity; Suicide; Tragedy


THE PRINCIPLES OF CONCEALMENT, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you're caught in the open
Subject(s): Identity


THE SPEAKING TREE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great alexander sailing was from his true course turned
Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Identity; Trees


THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RIVERS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rivers of my life
Last Line: Comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Identity; Life; Memory; Nature; Relationships; Rivers


THE TWINS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good and bad are in my heart
Last Line: That the other was the best.
Subject(s): Evil; Identity; Men; Twins; Virtue


THE WAY IT WAS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked out quietly
Last Line: Trying to be white
Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Identity


THE WINDOW, by LYNDA HULL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Streak of world blurred charcoal & scarlet, the el slows,
Last Line: That thing which shines & doth so much torment us
Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Identity; Conduct Of Life


THE WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The saris go by me from the embassies
Subject(s): Identity; Zoos


THINGS (FOR AN INDIAN) TO DO IN NEW YORK (CITY), by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walk down the avenue of the americas
Last Line: She loves me, she loves me
Subject(s): New York City; Native Americans; Identity; Urban Life


TO SEE WHO WE ARE AND WERE, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I start in their bedroom with its brown linoleum
Last Line: Every pore as I turn, raw initiate, inside my mother's house
Subject(s): Identity


TO T.H., A LADY RESEMBLING MY MISTRESS, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair copy of my celia's face
Last Line: Only because you are her coin.
Subject(s): Identity


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. NOTHING LESS THAN ALL, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All, all - and nothing less than all
Last Line: And shall be content with nothing less than all.
Subject(s): Identity; Self-satisfaction


TRUE MYTH, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell a child she is composed of parts
Last Line: She is the myth that is true
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Identity; Women


UNDERESTIMATION OF POWER, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: When daddy pushed me and girlhood innocence
Last Line: They underestimated my power
Subject(s): Identity; Women


WAS YOU BORN HERE?, by LEIGH PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cause you don't talk like you
Last Line: You're from somewhere, aren't you?'
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Immigrants; Strangers


WEARING BREASTS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit back in the city
Last Line: Among creatures that stare from green mud
Subject(s): Identity; Introspection


WHERE I'M FROM, by SELENE STEESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: None of my ancestors %were settlers
Last Line: Nothing was ever settled %in my family
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Identity


WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sirs, in our youth you love the sight of us
Last Line: Come die with me in the mosques of rotterdam.
Subject(s): China; Ethnic Identity; Identity; Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Self-consciousness; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips; Feminism


WHERE WAS IT I, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Identity


WHO AM I AND WHAT AM I, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who am I and what am I
Last Line: Look - - and float on its way in the silence
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Identity


WHO IS THIS THAT COMETH UP NOT ALONE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who is this?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Marriage; Identity


WHO KNOWS?, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh indian watching from the doorway
Last Line: Ah, my lord: who knows?
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Incas; Peru


WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE A POET?, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mouth jammed %full of peanut butter
Last Line: And a cigarette in the morning
Subject(s): Identity; Women


WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The saris go by me from the embassies
Last Line: You see what I am: change me, change me!
Subject(s): Identity; Zoos


WOMAN IN LOVE 1, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's easy to be a slave
Last Line: From soul searching
Subject(s): Identity; Women


WOMAN IN LOVE 2, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was my shelter
Last Line: Is that too much to ask for
Subject(s): Identity; Women


WOODS, by PAMELA SNEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Too far to turn back
Last Line: Far from where I was
Subject(s): Identity; Women


YOUR SOUL, by ALEJANDRO GUANES    Poem Source                    
First Line: If the eye is a mirror that reflects the soul, then the women
Last Line: Let me, in delirium, see your soul in a kiss!
Subject(s): Deception; Ethnic Identity; Paraguay; Women