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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THE MAD SONGS OF SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Squeezing a half-eaten peach, %I rub the other palm
Last Line: I hear mosquitoes sing
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Variant Title(s): After The Fall Of Saigon; After The Noise Of Saigo
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


AMONG STRANGERS, by SILVIA CURBELO    Poem Source                    
First Line: One lost track of the story
Last Line: One licked his empty plate
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This city is made of stone, of blood, and fish
Last Line: To survive?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; Survival; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Indians Of America; American Indians;


ANDROGYNY, by STEPHEN ORLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just when you thought it safe enough
Last Line: Which cannot distinguish one sex from the other
Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ANOREXIC, by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's only the attic I miss
Last Line: Where cheers rise from the empty bleaches %again and again, though %I am like a cloud by now, like v
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ASSIGNMENT, by LEN ROBERTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All of the pens leaked
Last Line: Staggered home from boney's bar
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


AT MOTHER TERESA'S, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Finally there are enough people to hug!
Last Line: Her face closes. I will never guess
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


AT PRESENT I AM WORKING AS A SECURITY GUARD, by EDISON DUPREE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Watching a mallard, just beyond
Last Line: Feeding species
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN DOE, by JON LAVIERI    Poem Source                    
First Line: He got hauled in %on a routine sweep for illegals
Last Line: And over there, the man who posed %as a man we all knew
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BARBELLS OF THE GODS, by MARK COX    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a thursday, getting late
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BATTERED TODDLER, PAGE B6, by ELLEN DORE WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes grown-ups forget you're down there
Last Line: Turns out to be, it will be one good mother
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BEGGARS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each day as I leave holiday health spa
Last Line: Of stones dripping green blood, and rotting plums
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BEING A MONSTER, by LAWRENCE RAAB    Poem Source                    
First Line: You talk about disappointment
Last Line: That you and I share almost nothing
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BELOVED SPIC, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the new white neighborhood
Last Line: With a sign that read: for sale
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BLACK IRISH BLUES (1), by JOE-ANNE MCLAUGHLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Already this tremor in my hands
Last Line: Understand, it killed me just the same
Variant Title(s): Companion Piece
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BLUENESS OF THE DAY: 1. MIZUNO IN PARIS (1947), by DAVID MURA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It happened in an instant
Last Line: Of my eyes, the alien energy thrashing her thighs, %but no, it's just my face, that implacable mask
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BODO, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We could weep for him
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


BODO, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We could weep for him
Last Line: In which a fish head floated
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BOOK OF HUMAN ANOMALIES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maud stevens received her first tattoo in 1904
Last Line: In and out of breath through our complex sleeps %astonishing
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America


BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys
Last Line: No one. Red notes sounding in a grey trolley town
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States


BROKEN SONNETS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: After supper in the big room
Last Line: The one god and the angels forgot. Or simply missed
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


BROTHER BODY, by PETER COOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I am, awakened by accident
Last Line: I plug in the shaver, lift myself to it. Now today
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CAJUN, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to take the word back into my body, back
Last Line: Again, the word's been stolen, like me %gutted
Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CANCIONES, by KENNETH ZAMORA DAMACION    Poem Source                    
First Line: What told us that the day was over?
Last Line: Perhaps, they'll call out to us
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


COMMENT ON MY HOST, by MARK SOLOMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: What a relief to be speaking again, restored
Last Line: Though he shakes his head, mumbling into his beard
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CONSENT, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arrows striking all sides of the body and st. Sebastian smiling
Last Line: A little of what already exists and the towering sense of kindnesses no world can offer?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


CONSENT, by CAROL FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arrows striking all sides of the body and st. Sebastian smiling
Last Line: A little of what already exists and the towering sense of kindness no %world can offer?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CONSPIRACY, by ROBERT HILL LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cambodian kids speak english faster
Last Line: The smile that translates all-clear, truce, %ok, hello. That says the kids can stay
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CORPOREAL, by ROBERT A. AYRES    Poem Source                    
First Line: In seventh grade larry saclarides had a gym locker next to mine, and
Last Line: Desire's root will grow
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CRITIC, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the boston public library on boylston street, where all the bums come
Last Line: And start again: page one, chapter one, his blood-rimmed eyes as rapt as %david's doing psalms
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CRYPTO-JEWS, by ROBIN BECKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This summer, reading the history of the jews of spain
Last Line: Weather, peddle our goods and die into the future
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CUANDO EL TEOLOTE CANTA, EL INDIO MUERE, by CONSUELO DE AERENLUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long before the spainards came
Last Line: Slowly fill with tears
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CURE, by EUGENE WILDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everyone in here hates. That is why this place is called a clinic
Last Line: The bars you are on
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


CURRENT NOW, VOYAGER FANTASY, by REMY HOLZER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am standing tensely at the desk
Last Line: The woman with a past, the voyager, camille
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DAVID'S RUMOR, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am busy doing drawings
Last Line: This riot, that hall, that vacancy and pressure %wherein we draw towards goodbye
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


DAY LILY AND THE FOX, by EMILY HIESTAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: An irish soul walks away from paddy's
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DEFLECTION TOWARD THE RELATIVE MINOR, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They were partakers of a strange taste. - at the hour when
Last Line: In the evening ground when the bell
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Night; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Bedtime


DEFLECTION TOWARD THE RELATIVE MINOR, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They were partakers of a strange taste. - at the hour when
Last Line: Sounded for [evening] prayer
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Night


DEPRESSIVE EPISODE, by JANET HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's funny, but I don't remember much
Last Line: Of health has tried to take her life. They hate her
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DIARY, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am at last that thing, a stranger in my own life
Last Line: And holding on between the few late pinched tomatoes %and the whistling dove
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Diaries; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DIVORCED, by DONALD SHARE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The air swimming with the bugs' forlorn morse code on a hellish mid-morning
Last Line: The wind insistent, out rhythm inconstant, my thoughts divorced
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DOUBLE, by JOAN ALESHIRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Attractive at that distance, hair fanning out
Last Line: Her true, betraying sister
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


DOWNTOWN SUNDAY, by ROBERT+(2) CRAWFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The amputated husband
Last Line: Main street's like a lost %funeral procession
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ELLIS ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 1907 (1), by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sadie, who was only twelve, wrote each letter down
Last Line: Where she could become it
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Marginality, Social; Names


ELM TREE ON LAFAYETTE STREET, by ROD KESSLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thinks it's all junk these days, the routine
Last Line: Thinks. Just look at me. And it bugs him that we don't get it
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ENDURING WITNESS, THE MOSQUES OF KATTANKUDI, by PETER MICHELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Muhammad wheels us through
Last Line: Upon those durable imperatives %grace and hospitality
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EROSION, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Parachuting into the desert is a quiet arrival
Last Line: Eroding the shore beneath the nomad's feet
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO WORK CAN, by BROOKE WIESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman at the lecture waves her hand
Last Line: And who cannot read any of these words?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, by MARTIN JUDE FARAWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit %in the second-to-last seat
Last Line: The dumbest one in the room
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Kindergarten; Marginality, Social


EVOLUTION OF APPETITE, by KELLEEN ZUBICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think about st. Joan without
Last Line: Divoting, then lifting to end
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EXAMPLE, by PAUL ZIMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The papers on my desk out of hand
Last Line: Smile my abiding smile and work and work
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EXILE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time came for him to be released
Last Line: The unruly fiction which he labored to believe
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EXILE, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He returned to grass two feet tall
Last Line: Felt his feet settling on the road
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


EXILES, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father, listening
Last Line: They leaned toward news %that never came
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


FALLING FOR JESUS, by ENID SHOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For years I wanted to trade
Last Line: In a slack face-the pose %of a woman in love
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


FLIGHT OF APOLLO, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth was my home, but even there I was a stranger. This mineral crust.
Last Line: The intelligence of the stars
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


FOR DEAR LIFE, by ALANE ROLLINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before we pushed off for moon in manana land
Last Line: In this mess of a sea that never settles
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


FOR THE DRUNK, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the river cleaves
Last Line: I hand him his hat
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


GOING OUT FOR CIGARETTES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a story as famous as the three little pigs
Last Line: Downstream, and its upturned reflection in the water
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


GOING OUT FOR CIGARETTES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a story as famous as the three little pigs
Last Line: Nothing but the arc of the stone bridge he notices %downstream, and its upturned reflection in the w
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


GOOD DEVIL, by KURT BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was bad at torture. Flubbed his first flaying
Last Line: Glistening with everlasting life
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


GUARDIAN ANGEL, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Afloat between lives and stale truths
Last Line: Beneath the surfaces of the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


GWENDOLYN BROOKS, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She doesn't wear %costume jewelry
Last Line: Bro, they been calling that sister by the wrong name
Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


HERBIE, by DAVID ALPAUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was almost eighteen years old
Last Line: You can have my fucking tricycle, herbie
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil
Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Gays & Lesbians; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil
Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Homosexuality; Marginality, Social


HOW TO APPROACH YOUR LOVER'S WIFE, by AMY BOTTKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spot her, but don't lock on her
Last Line: Chat recipes with the host
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


IN AND OUT OF CHECKPOINTS, by YE WEILIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is the river a boundary line?
Last Line: Is the sea a boundary line?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


IN THE BARN, by ROGER FANNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cat composed as an uncut pie
Last Line: How they beg to be devoured
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


IN THE BASEMENT OF THE GOODWILL STORE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In musty light, in the thin brown air
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


IN THE BASEMENT OF THE GOODWILL STORE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In musty light, in the thin brown air
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Students


IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life
Last Line: Des moines, I was saying to myself %baton rouge. Terre haute. Boise
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations


IN THE NEW COUNTRY, by BARBARA RAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love america. Ham bones and shoes
Last Line: We'll feed to the pig in the cellar
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It isn't the body
Last Line: Though you utter %every one of my words, %you are a stranger. %it's time you spoke.'
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


INSOMNIA LITANY, by JOAN LOGGHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a jew among sunflowers, a jew
Last Line: Of the unlabeled. An uncircumcised sleep
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ITINERARY, by DOUG ANDERSON                        Poet's Biography
First Line: In arizona coming across the border with dope in my tires
Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Estrangement; Outcasts


ITINERARY, by DOUG ANDERSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In arizona coming across the border with dope in my tires
Last Line: Through the heart. Corazone. Corragio. Core
Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


JEWISH, by HARVEY M. PLOTNICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My skin is white, but my name is foreign, a dark reflection
Last Line: And sometimes you sudder as I stir in mass graves
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jews; Marginality, Social


KNIFE-THROWER'S WIFE, by MEKEEL MCBRIDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The knife-thrower's wife stands
Last Line: Like a crowd of adoring suitors
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along
Last Line: Until we're even. Until the last %coin is rubbed for luck and spent. %I don't sell for nothing less
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States


LAZARUS, by RONALD BOYD KOERTGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: After jesus raised him from the dead
Last Line: God's name in vain on his cracked and loamy lips
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


LEARNING THE WAR, by WENDY WILDER LARSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never made friends faster
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


LEAVING EDEN, by NADYA AISENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The date palm and the cypress
Last Line: Before we tasted murder, mortality
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women's Rights


LEAVING THE COUNTRY, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He drifts into a room of strangers
Last Line: Or run across the wet summer grass
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


LEAVING THE OLD GODS, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The people who watch me hang my coat
Last Line: I can't understand your words
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Central America; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature


LETTERS FROM AN EXILE, by VALERIE DUFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trotsky's dead. My strays
Last Line: We argue, we sweat
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


LINE UP, by FORREST HAMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once again, someone took me %for another black man, my brother
Last Line: Presuming it belonged to me
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


LITTLE CITIZEN, LITTLE SURVIVOR, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A brown rat has taken up residence with me
Last Line: Lend me your presence, and I will lend you mine.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Rats; Estrangement; Outcasts


LIVING IN AT LEAST TWO WORLDS, by CLEM L. RAWLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Back from the spring in the green draw
Last Line: Glad the oat-man's home
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature


LONG DIVISION: A TRIBAL HISTORY, by WENDY ROSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our skin loosely lays
Last Line: I suckle coyotes and grieve
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature


MAGNIFICAT!, by MICHAEL S. GLASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight, on holiday in oxford, bach's magnificat
Last Line: Gloria et spiritui sancto
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MAL'OCCHIO, by JENNIFER MARTELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The red pepper hangs from a nail
Last Line: Muffled goodness. Beneficent abstraction. Snuffed flame
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MAN IN THE MOON, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: White-faced, white-suited, as big as the full moon in the tropical sky
Last Line: Black sky like a terrible white sign: they know you wherever you are
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MANIC: A CONVERSATION WITH JIMI HENDRIX, by TIMOTHY SEIBLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: All these hang-ups, all this time wasted when
Last Line: Is a smile, you know
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MARK, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shatterfall. Scutter
Last Line: This isn't about truth
Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MAX JACOB AT SAINT BENOIT, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The noonday square. Plane leaves, dust
Last Line: " at drancy. There, the nazis let him die - a sick old jew? - ""natural death. "" "
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


MAX JACOB AT SAINT BENOIT, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The noonday square. Plane leaves, dust
Last Line: - an old jew with pneumonia - 'naturally.'
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MEMORY OF WILMINGTON, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty-some years ago, hitchhiking
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


MEMORY OF WILMINGTON, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty-some years ago, hitchhiking
Last Line: Was far along on its way to becoming a city %and already well advanced on its way back to dust
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MIDLIFE, by JOSEPH MILLAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's slim and seems distracted, the social worker
Last Line: And the wind in th trees outside %like someone passing
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My body is a white thing in the sun, now
Last Line: Polished and swarming frankly in the sun
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MURDERER, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I talked, I kept thinking
Last Line: I hardly know what I've done
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


MUTE PROPHETS, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a language before
Last Line: And the world %will tremble
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NAME THE OLDEST MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY, by KALAMU YA SALAAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The baby, the newborn, is the oldest
Last Line: Eternity are wise enough to distinguish
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NAZIS, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god they're all gone
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


NAZIS, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god they're all gone
Last Line: I can see he's not one of us
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NEW BOY, by PETER E. MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crossing brooklyn ferry from staten island
Last Line: To play with, someone mean enough to take him in?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NEW NETHERLAND, 1654, by GRACE SCHULMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pardon us for uttering a handful
Last Line: To tales unstamped by laws and never sacred
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NO TOOL OR ROPE OR PAIL, by BOB ARNOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: It hardly mattered what time of year
Last Line: And they waved
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NOBODY HERE BUT US, by RICHARD GARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Being old is not so bad. You wake up
Last Line: And spin that chicken over my head, spraying blood like rain
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


NOSTALGIA, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why look back at the old roads again? Drugs and buggery flourished. My
Last Line: Under those wheels...Oh, I welcome it
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


OLD FOLSOM PRISON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This could be scotland: a crag and far below
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


OLD FOLSOM PRISON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This could be scotland: a crag and far below
Last Line: There was room for air, if you were there
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, by GERALD COSTANZO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a time in my life when
Last Line: Neighborhood %once more
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


OLMOS, by DENNIS NURKSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man walks a dusty road
Last Line: That will mould me out of ashes
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ON A CERTAIN FIELD IN AUVERS, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the road to hallucination
Last Line: And the great light of the sun
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


ON A CERTAIN FIELD IN AUVERS, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the road to hallucination
Last Line: And the great light of the sun
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ON BEING KICKED OUT OF THE HAROLD WASHINGTON LIBRARY CENTER FOR NAPPIN, by THOM WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above me no seraphim or nymphs
Last Line: Dear james I too %have wasted my life
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ON BEING TOLD I DON'T SPEAK LIKE A BLACK PERSON, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Emphasize the h, you ignorant ass
Last Line: Greetings familiar %in any language
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


ON TV THE FACE OF THE SLAUGHTERED, by LYLE GLAZIER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Hungry, in fact, as hell
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ONE POLAR BEAR, by PETER SEARS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You know how in the zoo most of the polar bears
Last Line: I know about rubbing yourself away on the bars
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ONE SECRET THAT HAS CARRIED, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Irene loves a man %who is afraid of sex: she's attended
Last Line: Would say it was somebody else's
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PARADING WITH THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apache, omaha, osage, choctaw, comanche, cherokee, oglala, micmac
Last Line: Absence of buffalo here in the %gateway to the west, st louis
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Variant Title(s): Parading With The V.f.w
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Depressions, Economic; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


PAREDON, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Staring down the mountainous wall
Last Line: Cursed island who has never known its sick from itself
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PARTY, by DONALD FINKEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: They're throwing a party upstairs
Last Line: With, my delectable sea-grape %I do without
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PASSING (2), by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A professor invites me to his black lit class; they're
Last Line: My father quizzed me
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


PASSING (2), by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A professor invites me to his black lit class; they're
Last Line: What do you think %he would always write?' my father'd say
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PATHOLIGIST, by ELLEN DUDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If he turns them, they are purple, black from head to heel
Last Line: Cool belly, his whole body tingling
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PAUL VERLAINE AT THE GRAVE OF LUCIEN LETINOIS, by BIN RAMKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What does the world with its lung of ocean breathe
Last Line: He could not buy his bones
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PEOPLE AT THE PAY TELEPHONE, by VICTORIA MCCABE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A husband or a lover has run this one out
Last Line: Eating fine food, talking to people
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker / slapped the back of my head
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools; Estrangement; Outcasts; Words; Vocabulary; Students


PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker %slapped the back of my head
Last Line: In your palm, the ripe weight
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools


PHARAOH'S ARMY GOT DROWNDED, by LYNN DOMINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cop's face for an odd second
Last Line: In any world but ours
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


POEM, by DENIS JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was something I can't bring myself
Last Line: I pulled to the side of the road and wrote this poem
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


POEM FOR NATALIA GINZBURG, by ANITA HELLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When natalia ginzburg died, the papers of her region declared
Last Line: The nocturnal pause between two pronouns, you and I
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


POEM FOR THE MAN WHO SAID SHIT, by DAVID CLEWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first I lost it in your beard
Last Line: The sergeant will say it's people like me
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


POETS, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What were they like as schoolboys? Long on themes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PORTRAIT, by CONSTANCE URDANG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trespasser in my own house
Last Line: Not even the dog knows me
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


PRAYER, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts


PRAYER, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take
Last Line: Either life you choose will end in her arms
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women


RADIATING NAIVETE, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a false philosopher of this
Last Line: Knuckled god, nobody's humming bird
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


RESTAURANT, by MAXINE HONG KINGSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The main cook lies sick on a banquette, and his assistant
Last Line: And wonder at the clean diners behind glass in candlelight
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Restaurants


RIDDLE OF NOAH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You want to change your name. You're looking
Last Line: In quest of his rightful self while the world looks on
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


ROBERT WILSON, by MICHAEL COLLIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though he is dead now and his miracle
Last Line: Straight in the river and walked deftly toward us %out of the water to his shoes %that lay abandoned
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SALT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lisa, leona, loretta? %she's sipping a milkshake
Last Line: In a wooden barrel
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the house in detroit
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life


SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the house in detroit
Last Line: With cousin and brother %against the stranger
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social


SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER, by JONATHAN HOLDEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pure sunlight is strewn all over the lawn
Last Line: I'm on nobody's team
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SEA WORLD, by ERIC BERLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This lady in her wheel chair has been left
Last Line: Move as slow as pennies dropped in a pool
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SHAME, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the shame of the woman whose hand hides
Last Line: And the shame of knowing how cheap such dreams are
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SHE-WHO-WATCHES...THE NAMES ARE PRAYER, by ELIZABETH A. WOODY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is celilo %dispossed, the village of neglect
Last Line: And everyone dissolved from the fall
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SHOW BIZ PARTIES, by ELIZABETH CLAMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dad cracks a joke and two men laugh
Last Line: A prick this big. Beautiful
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SIMPLEST AND THE HARDEST, by MARGARET LLOYD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I prepare for you the way I plan
Last Line: Allowed to be still as well as the heart %which closes and opens when he departs
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SIX SMALL FIRES, by PAUL JENKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They hurry through the forest suitcases in hand
Last Line: I set just now to witness my shame
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SLAVESHIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loaded like spoons
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jesus Christ; Marginality, Social; Slavery; Estrangement; Outcasts; Serfs


SLAVESHIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loaded like spoons
Last Line: Can this sin live
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jesus Christ; Marginality, Social; Slavery


SOLOING, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother tells me she dreamed
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


SOLOING, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother tells me she dreamed
Last Line: Turned back and lost the music
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SONG, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a song for the speechless
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


SONG, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a song for the speechless
Last Line: Who have no voices have one tongue
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones
Last Line: I'm just going to school.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts;


SPACE, by MAURA STANTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monday a boy who cannot lift
Last Line: Mother, teacher, aliens, stones
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


STAR-SPANGLED, by MICHELE GLAZER    Poem Source                    
First Line: One man won't say anything
Last Line: And how so many birds fit inside
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


STRANGER, by GERALD LOCKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were building a fort
Last Line: Build a cardboard fort
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


SUMMONS, by DAVID RIVARD            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose I can convince myself this
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


SUMMONS, by DAVID RIVARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose I can convince myself this
Last Line: And skittering over one another's backs
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


TENNESSEE WALTZ, by JAMES HAUG    Poem Source                    
First Line: He bows because he is nobody
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#58), by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They came to the door because he was small or went to some
Last Line: This time the dead man will see them in hell.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Dissenters; Exiles; Funerals; Graves; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones


THE CRYPTO-JEWS, by ROBIN BECKER                        Poet's Biography
First Line: This summer, reading the history of the jews of spain
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE FLIGHT OF APOLLO, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth was my home, but even there I was a stranger. This mineral crust.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It isn't the body
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My body is a white thing in the sun, now
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE ONE SECRET THAT HAS CARRIED, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Irene loves a man / who is afraid of sex: she's attended
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


THOREAU, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father and I have no place to go
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Estrangement; Outcasts


TO AN UNKNOWN POET, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I haven't the heart to say
Last Line: In this bastion of culture.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Estrangement; Outcasts; Feminism


TO JERUSALEM, 1990, by MYRA SHAPIRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a sheroot, that's what
Last Line: After school, in my own house. Home
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


TSUNEKO-PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS CLINIC, by SUSAN KOLODNY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the north-south street, glass birds
Last Line: The north-south street the square flat stones
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Writer's Conferences And Workshops


TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter
Last Line: I will take that ancestral one
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women


UNDER HER CRIB, by MARCIA PELLETIERE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the yiddish song a goat danced under
Last Line: And miril sings, so the goat will dance her girl to sleep
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


UNREPENTANT, by BRANDEL FRANCE DE BRAVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: What could I do %when I saw his face
Last Line: From my young bones
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


UPSTATE, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A knife blade of cold air keeps prying
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


UPSTATE, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A knife blade of cold air keeps prying
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


USUAL IMMIGRANT UNCLE POEM, by ASKOLD MELNYCZUK    Poem Source                    
First Line: He feared money so much he was known
Last Line: Still, that doesn't quite explain the money
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WALK, by ETHAN GILSDORF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why must that slight man
Last Line: This is no world for old men
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward
Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts


WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward
Last Line: Hide your daughters, lock your doors
Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


WEIGHT, by JAY SCHNEIDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day long she works to not feel fat. She culls
Last Line: We would have it no other way
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WHEN YOU ARE GROWN, AMANDA ROSE, by LAURA BOSS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You're going to have a good life
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WHY SHE HURRIES OUT, THEN HOME, by MARTHA RHODES    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's always expecting disaster
Last Line: A small gray cloud waiting at the gate
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WITHOUT, by BRUCE BERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Friends my own age all have kids they can't wait
Last Line: The quiet of a dead end
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social


WOMAN WHO WEEPS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the valley, ten children working the fields
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts


WOMAN WHO WEEPS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the valley, ten children working the fields
Last Line: Village to village and into the smoky huts, %her soul a well, an eye, and open door
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social