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Subject: LITERARY PRIZES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A REJECTED NEWDIGATE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sicily! Upon whose torrid shores
Last Line: But yet I can't believe much more than half of what I'm told.
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Literary Prizes; Poetry & Poets


BACK TO COUNTRY WITH PULITZER, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I left here at eight
Subject(s): Aging; Illness; Conduct Of Life; Success; Failure; Retirement; Love - Loss Of; Literary Prizes


HELLO, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hello, drug addict, can you become a poem of perfect form?
Last Line: Your napalmed brain and drug-addicted body
Subject(s): Literary Prizes; Poetry & Poets; Social Commentaries; War; Drugs & Drug Abuse


LONG STRETCH MINIMALIST SONNET, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were out of town
Subject(s): Literary Prizes


NOBEL SURPRISER, by RICHARD O'CONNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Explain his fame and foreign veneration?
Last Line: He reads much better in a bad translation
Subject(s): Literary Prizes


PULITZER PRIZE WINNER, by RIC MASTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of louis simpson I knew nothing
Last Line: Afterward %crunching along %through a crisp ann arbor afternoon %I considered getting a haircut
Subject(s): Literary Prizes; Simpson, Louis (b. 1923)


TO A FRIEND WHOM A LITERARY PRIZE PASSED OVER, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some laurels damn you. Pearl s. Buck's the choice
Last Line: Ripen and gather radiance by default %like lipless whiskey in a lightless vault
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Buck, Pearl S. (1892-1973); Literary Prizes


TREAD THE DARK: 85. HELLO, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hello, drug addict, can you become a poem of perfect form?
Last Line: Wow. I don't want to hear another word %except your groans and sighs
Subject(s): Literary Prizes; Poetry And Poets