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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NIXON, RICHARD (1913-1996) Matches Found: 66 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABERGAVENNY, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: This was the home of holy men Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States AFTER DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE: A PHOTOGRAPH, by MARY BELLE CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Mr. Nixon is playing his spinet Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); White House (washington, D.c.) ART OF LOVE, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: I learned in my mother's kitchen, at her hands Last Line: Satisfied, I'll let you lay hands on me Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States AS BARBARA CARTLAND WOULD SAY, I LOVE YOU, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: O worldly one, my bodice is not heaving Last Line: To say enough to care the very best Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States AS MY HUSBAND TRANSLATES FROM THE POLISH, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Unselfconscious as a statue, %he sits heavily on a thin green chair Last Line: In love or in despair %at the hour %of someone else's death Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States BABEL, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Scum from the pickle crock, dumplings with plum Last Line: And sang about a silver horse with wings Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States BEYOND THE VELVET CURTAIN, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Monthly I have come to these sands, monthly I have braved the %surge Last Line: Pilot this empty gondola, this navigable slipper, beyond the slap, the %first lungswell and shriek Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States BRESLAU, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: I see everything in layers: %trees, cities, species, the sexuality Last Line: As the lamps snuff out, the walls %crumble in, the canaries %leave of singing Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States BRIDE OF TRICKY D., by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the rest is taps, or reveille. Maybe Last Line: He'll say, 'but it would be wrong.' Subject(s): Death; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) CHECKERS, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: O my master of the armchair and the ottoman Last Line: Narrow trenches of leather lined with ripe, damp fur Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States CITOYEN, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Oh missionary, oh honey,' I say Last Line: We begin the slow march on the capital, we beat %the slow sheep home Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States COME AS YOU ARE, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: She drives all night through the bovine dark Last Line: Abundance? How, later, to fit back in the box? Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States CUBA LIBRE, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: The plywood bar in the basement %glistened with silverfish Last Line: The primer of mother's muted heels %popping and sparking up above Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States CURRICULUM VITA, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Antoni szymonik, born 1983, subject of franz-joseph Last Line: 1974, died of a stroke beside a statue of the blessed virgin Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States DROUGHT, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: After the grass burned, after our great Last Line: In your hair, death %and the banishment of death, wave %after wave Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States DURING THE SORTIES OVER BAGHDAD, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: A woman works with lace panels Last Line: A city that has never been bombed Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States DUST DEVILS, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Today, on the thirtieth of the drought Last Line: And dust devils, hot wind and sod, the gray scale %between black and white? Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States EINSTEIN'S TRAIN, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: For years I will track you, tunnel Last Line: And let lightning strike you twice Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States EXILE, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: O marble aunts and grandparents %planted in this alien soil Last Line: For lilies in my arms and growing hair Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States FLOWER CAST, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: A flower cast has taken place for three days Last Line: Films in new york and a worldwide gold sealer %summed up that's one small step for %man one small st Subject(s): News; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States; Radio FROST HEAVES, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: When the winter retches so hard the roads contort Last Line: Frost heaves when I touch myself %pretending to touch her Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States GIN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first time I drank gin Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse GIN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first time I drank gin Last Line: Of dwight eisenhower, who brought us %richard nixon with wife and dog. %any wonder we were trying gi Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) GREGOR SAMSA SYNDROME, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: My nixon began when I did Last Line: I once copied to quote myself %into my wife's love Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Political Campaigns; Presidents, United States HELLO NEIL AND BUZZ FROM OMAHA, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: Hello neil and buzz from omaha and the church camp Last Line: Thirty-four hours all the utilities and tvs can %start anytime you want Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States HERMANN KAFKA'S DINNERTIME PANTOUM, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: When father says it's time, it's time! Last Line: And when father says it's time, it's time! Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States HOME MOVIE, 1960, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Who were you before you could speak? Last Line: I wish I could cover you with language Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States ILLINOIS, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Shaped like lincoln's face, veined red and blue Last Line: And cottonmouth, the submerged willow root %I could wreck my life on Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States KATHE KOLLWITZ, AFTER A VISIT TO THE NEW RUSSIA, 1927, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: My model sleeps. But no matter Last Line: Even there hunger rattles on %like an empty train Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States LAST OF BEBE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who traded recipes with haldeman? Last Line: With memories, singing like an offshore %banker sleep, mi camarada Subject(s): Friendship; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Rebozo, Charles Gregory (bebe) (1912-98); White House (washington, D.c.) LAWRENCE WELK, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: I loved my gram, but couldn't stand her show Last Line: Would polka her around the universe Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States LEARNING TO DRAW, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Leonardo! I'm learning to see %in fractions: the body in eighths Last Line: In their saucers, and my frogs any moment %will leap off the page Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States LOSING LANGUAGE, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: It's pan zbyszek's funeral, and I'm running late Last Line: I will neither fidget nor flinch Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States MAKING PIEROGI, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: The dough is not turning out. It refuses Last Line: And float in the salty water, and rescue them %again and again Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States MASTERY, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: At 22, I snuck up on rembrandt's pose Last Line: Of what was lost: a rescue or refuge Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States MISS VICTORY (1895), by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: You can't fool us, miss victory, queening it Last Line: Your left hand flaming, the other hugging the hilt Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States NIXON, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his pointed head Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) NIXON, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his pointed head Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) NIXON AND NIKITA IN THE KITCHEN, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: At the threshold of the model american home Last Line: To tell the truth, and the young are rarely capable of it Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States NIXON IN HELL, by GARY KEENAN Poem Source First Line: If I'd known I was headed for brimstone and boredom Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) NIXON NAMES ELVIS HONORARY FEDERAL NARCOTICS AGENT..., by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The king is thinking tricia's got nice tits Last Line: It means, sir, taking care of business with a flash' Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presley, Elvis (1937-1977) NIXON ON THE PLEASURES OF UNDRESSING A WOMAN, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: With us, it is easy: a tug on the tie, the ubiquitous zipper Last Line: But for silence, longing, a residue of perfume Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States NIXON'S BRIEFCASE BY JOSEPH CORNELL, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Nixon rubs his palm across the large pores Last Line: He feels like a pharaoh at the mouth of his own tomb Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States NIXON'S NIGHTMARE, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: B-52s with heavy payloads whinny %over the reflecting pools at versailles Last Line: Untwits the pin of a grenade. Serpents %of reel-to-reel shoot through the pool Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States ON THE DAY OF NIXON'S FUNERAL, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's time to put the aside the old resentments; lies Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Death; Dead, The PAT NIXON SPEAKS OF HER HUSBAND'S SNORING, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: For all I know his communiques %animate the gray pacific or ascend Last Line: Cliffs of rock along the coast, and the ocean %with its everlasting in and out Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States PHILOSOPHER NIXON AT FRISBEE, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: It began as a game with his grandkids, an absurd pursuit Last Line: His body not the aimless arrow %but the tightened bow Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States POET'S WIFE, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: She curses the half moon hanging Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States POLISH JOKES, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: In the deep freeze of the cold war Last Line: For feigning detente while dreaming of exile Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States PRAIRIE SCHOONER, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: That house at tenth & grant Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Old upright piano, she says, I am home Last Line: Canada has returned. Stroke the quilted %nap of her feathers, and take good aim Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States REVISING SYLVIA, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Eight-millimeter woman, phosphoric semaphore Last Line: Who hovers, wavers %but refuses to descend Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States RICHARD NIXON: NOV/69, by ELI W. MANDEL Poem Source First Line: This is a poem called I have a plan Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) SAINT ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF HUNGARY, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Nights, under the tasseled brocade of my canopy Last Line: Feast. No man can live without it Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States SAPPHIC SONNETS, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Why do I try to glid you in this form? Last Line: While wishing someone would swing you, at last Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States SHORTWAVE, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: From moscow, london, and tripoli %shortwaves winged through the steel v Last Line: Attending to concerts, quiz shows, propaganda, war Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States SPIDER ELECTRIC, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: It was advent. You wanted to be a shepherd Last Line: The smoke, you are patient all right, twirling the skillet %for hours, till the stickiness %is right Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States SYNECDOCHE, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Curious the mute relics you left me Last Line: Without consuming for freezing the kingdom? Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States TO WARSAW, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Your kino moscow gleams like a pink dish Last Line: I have few words, but will tell of it Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PUBLIC LIFE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The president, my father, and myself Last Line: And record the president's words. He paces his room %insisting on his innocence and our guilt Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) TUREEN, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: Through the lid-hole cut for a ladle %I smell onions and broccoli %breathing Last Line: I hold you with a loose grip, one-handed, %to keep from slipping Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States WATCHING MY FATHER PRAY, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: We are no longer in europe, in his father's provincial town Last Line: All the hours on our knees, praying for the wrong thing Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States WCW ON MARSDEN HARTLEY, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: He's a querulous bit of baggage Last Line: And you would have made %the most charming whore %in new york Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States WEDDING SONG, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: I do what I can for hanka, daughter Last Line: The pale eagle of poland sweeping off its crest, %our stamping and whirring heard %as far as the sil Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States WHAT MY FATHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT SEX, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: That my mother and he never 'had relations' Last Line: Of the piano, for he had always wanted to play Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States WRONG SONNET OF THE POLITICAL RIGHT AND LEFT, by NORMAN DUBIE Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Politics And Politicians; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) |
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