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Subject: NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS - AMERICAN
Matches Found: 18

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHALLENGE TO AMERICANS, by DORA WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Americans, we've built a nation great
Last Line: "we're the greatest nation in all the world!"
Subject(s): Americans; Flags - United States; National Characteristics - American; American Flag


CHARLES BON CONSIDERS HEAVEN, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I must admit, the bravura of fine music has never moved my blood
Last Line: We are to victory. Every face ash gray, blood gone. My brothers
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


CONTINENTAL'S GAMING TABLES, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Plush pullmans rumble through the gaps
Last Line: Unsteady compulsions and the drumming rails
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


ELMORE JAMES STEPS OUT OF A STALLED CAR, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Careful not to curse the steaming pile of rust, himself
Last Line: What to say about the hour, and location of the nearest phone
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


ETUDES IN THE NEXT WORLD, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Transcription flickers in the tallow light
Last Line: Nowhere else to look and I don't recognize a thing
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


FLORIDA RESORT SCENE, 1964, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A number one record warping in the april sun
Last Line: Deep at the waist, and slips his body down
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


GIFT AND PRIZE, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Manners still intact, smack of poor talk
Last Line: For the shameless moment, I covet my own life
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


INVISIBLE PHILADELPHIA, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In rittenhouse square, a white man pirouettes
Last Line: Did you see that? He carried his own case
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


JUNK TRAVEL THROUGH WEST MEMPHIS, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Woman with a starshell light behind her eyes
Last Line: She slips and taps inside its iridescent wave
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


MARSDEN HARTLEY PREDICTS THE INTERSTATES, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Square backs and air pressure - humid new york city
Last Line: Each dull gray line undulate and surge from point to point
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


MISSING MEMPHIS' DESIRE SIGNS, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up from the hollow storefronts and caverns
Last Line: With thoughts of people bound for memphis
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


MOMENTS WITH MS. GOLIGHTLY, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: White cake and glass after glass of dry champagne
Last Line: As if to judge them, she waits for what I have to say
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


PATRIOTISM, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's all you need to do
Last Line: That's patriotism.
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; Patriotism; War


ROUTES TO KANSAS CITY STAR, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roanoke park to rosedale park, a few winding blocks
Last Line: Classifieds. 'marketplace.' a make-do hat for the rain
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


STONE DOVES OF WILLIAM EDMONSON, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nashville, 1937 %they suit for bath or grave. Anywhere under the sun
Last Line: He hung a tombstone out for me to make
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


TRANSACTIONS UNDER GLASS, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why not let the whole morning turn on the brick cylinders
Last Line: Having cleared her throat for nothing
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


VICTORY THEATER, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The marquee almost comes alive when sun
Last Line: The marquee almost comes alive
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


WHAT MAKES TODAY'S COLD KITCHEN, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman played harp in purple flannel
Last Line: Like road salt, all across an empty space
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel