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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JEWS - UNITED STATES Matches Found: 42 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGAINST NOSTALGIA, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Nothing is more boring than my own life Last Line: Back when I was so young and impressionable? Subject(s): Jews - United States ALPHABET LETTERS, by KADYA MOLODOVSKY Poem Source First Line: In the bronx, in brooklyn and in new york city Last Line: For the card clubs and boy scout troops to which they belong Subject(s): Family Life; Jews - United States; New York City ARTICLE OF FAITH, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: David: coming home from a film today, my brain Last Line: I am writing my way west to celebrate some old lies with you Subject(s): Jews - United States ASSURANCES, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The soda cans you bag in bins Last Line: This will calm the others Subject(s): Jews - United States BALTHUS, THE WINDOW, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I've heard this one before Last Line: Like brushstrokes in the air Subject(s): Jews - United States; Windows BEFORE THE DEBATE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Before the debate each man checks his watch Last Line: Over the details of our new compromise Subject(s): Jews - United States BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO RELEASES ME FROM THIS RESPONSIBILITY', by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The girl's over-rehearsed. Her rushed rendition of the prayers Last Line: And that shamed sneer on your lip: give it a name. Give it your own Subject(s): Jews - United States BRIS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The strap from the pentax circles allen's forearm Last Line: We squint to hide the raw flesh of our eyes Subject(s): Jews - United States BURYING CARNATIONS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Windy days in missouri, rosemary Last Line: Today she is looking for flowers Subject(s): Jews - United States CONCILIATORY LETTER TO MORGAN, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Enclosed is the crushed ice I have promised you Last Line: Slowly pushing it all back into the earth where it belongs? Subject(s): Jews - United States DOCTRINE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Sundays I sit on the floor in a paper Last Line: And started for seattle Subject(s): Jews - United States DOCUMENT, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Page of dead letters. Dead words Last Line: But the name, sol, is clear and sharp as blood on glass Subject(s): Jews - United States FORBIDDING MOURNING, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: In this light, at the window, her reflection Last Line: As paper, and as precious Subject(s): Jews - United States FRIDAY IN JERUSALEM, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: We wake to roosters arguing over tractates of talmud Last Line: Reverently raises his new watch to the ceiling Subject(s): Jews - United States GULL HOUSE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Those stilts have held their own Last Line: Yellow eyes, they own Subject(s): Jews - United States I AM FORTUNATE IN A MEMORY OF SOUNDS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Trains in the stockyard answer the piano Last Line: With your shoes dropping in the doorway Subject(s): Jews - United States JEW IN A NEW SUIT, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: (ice man) %there he goes, the old man selling ice Last Line: It's your sweet fruit in my bitter mouth Subject(s): Jews - United States JONAH'S PROMISE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I'm supposed to sit with the coffin for an hour and read psalms Last Line: Unto you will I sing praises Subject(s): Jews - United States LIFE, MCKENZIE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: This is the envelope, my gap-toothed friend Last Line: Let them make for you a new exasperation Subject(s): Jews - United States MERRY CREW, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The boiler boys below decks Last Line: Set course against the wind Subject(s): Jews - United States MOUTHFUL OF SAND, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I gave up on words when my daughter died Last Line: In a new language only the two of us know Subject(s): Jews - United States MY FATHER'S HANDS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: It's a school night. While I get ready for bed Last Line: Raising me like a glass of wine Subject(s): Jews - United States NIGHT DRIVING, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: No one selling cherries %at roadside kiosks Last Line: Argument will be over. %two inches Subject(s): Jews - United States NOW, WHEN, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Outside, the granite field, ringed Last Line: Knowing what he wants Subject(s): Jews - United States OF IMMIGRATION, by JUDD TELLER Poem Source First Line: My mother leads me through streets Last Line: Of a little jew Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews - United States ORAL PALLIATIVE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Even after the burned hat, the shattered broom Last Line: Let your scar stories be your best batter Subject(s): Jews - United States OTHER LEO BAECK, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I am trying to locate a figure who can say something Last Line: Or think about heroism as a concept. Which is something Subject(s): Jews - United States OUR BUSINESS IS REJOICING, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Between channels, brief snarls of static: commercials for massacre Last Line: The faint electric screech inside the house like tremolo violins Subject(s): Jews - United States POEM, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I am trying to find a parking space Last Line: And that's not nearly enough Subject(s): Jews - United States PSALM, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: We're late. She pulls on hose, as if her skin Last Line: Later, curtains drawn, when everyone is home and at rest Subject(s): Jews - United States RIDING THE EIGHTEEN, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Few words, I'd like to think it's because it's 6:30 Last Line: Trailing it like a memory of violence Subject(s): Jews - United States SACRED AND THE PROFANE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: We sit in a circle while our leader, a senior Last Line: And make petitions, some of which he grants, raybans glittering Subject(s): Jews - United States SHYLOCK VISITS DACHAU: 1991, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Shylock emerges form brandenburg gate blinking Last Line: Leah's pursed smile reemerging, the black %cloth finally removed Subject(s): Jews - United States SIMCHA, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The men pogo into each other like wind-up toys Last Line: Back into the music, the riot, the sea of hands Subject(s): Jews - United States SONG, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I'm thinking of things we can't do Last Line: Mary, he doesn't own you, stay Subject(s): Jews - United States SOURCES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish scales, wet newspapers, unopened cans Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews - United States SOURCES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish scales, wet newspapers, unopened cans Last Line: But not least, beloved of god. Each other Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews - United States THE JEW IN AMERICA, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wing thee, my song, and in majestic flight Last Line: We shall emerge, unchanged, to face our god. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - United States; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Right To Asylum; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism THRASH, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Fifteen minutes of the backstreet downbeat syncopated terrorism coming off Last Line: Through the air like a gun Subject(s): Jews - United States TO AMERICA, by H. LEYVIK Poem Source First Line: For forty-one years I have lived in your borders, america Last Line: Embracing the glare of intimacy and farewell, america Subject(s): Jews - United States; United States VARIATIONS ON JONAH: 3, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: When they threw me over Last Line: Nothing to do-I let every muscle go slack Subject(s): Jews - United States VIENNA MARCH, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Boys in uniform call from a bridge above Last Line: Remember how their knees were thin as wrists? Subject(s): Jews - United States |
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