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Subject: OPERATION DESERT STORM (1991)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GULF WAR AND CHILD: A CURSE, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is sleeping, his fingers curled
Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Operation Desert Storm (1991)


IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE GULF WAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among
Subject(s): California; Gulf War (1991); Operation Desert Storm (1991)


NEWS REPORT, SEPTEMBER 1991 U.S. BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN GULF, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What you saw was a / bunch of trenches with
Variant Title(s): News Report, Sept 1991 U.s. Buried Iraqi Soldiers Alive
Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Operation Desert Storm (1991)


ON A LINE FROM VALERY, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole green sky is dying. The last tree flares
Last Line: The gulf war
Variant Title(s): Gulf War
Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Literary Form; Valery, Paul (1871-1945); War; Women; Women's Rights; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Feminism


OPERATIONS: DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who / are these two women, walking
Last Line: America, welcome home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grief; Gulf War (1991); History; Sorrow; Sadness; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Historians


THE BOMBING OF BAGDAD, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Began and did not terminate for 42 days
Last Line: With the dead
Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Bagdad, Iraq; Air Raids; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Operation Desert Storm (1991)


WITH THE WORLD, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would like to finish
Last Line: Thinking he's off-camera.
Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Love; Quarrels; War; War - Home Front; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Arguments; Disagreements