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Subject: ROTHKO, MARK (1903-1970)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GRADATIONS OF BLACK (THIRD FLOOR, WHITNEY MUSEUM), by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ad reinhardt's black, in 'abstract painting 33'
Last Line: And lets leak through the dead white underneath
Subject(s): Black (color); Kline, Franz (1910-1962); Paintings And Painters; Reinhardt, Ad (1913-1967); Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Stella, Frank (b. 1936); Still, Clyfford (1904-1980); Reinhardt, Adolf Frederick


GRADATIONS OF BLACK (THIRD FLOOR, WHITNEY MUSEUM), by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ad reinhardt's black, in 'abstract painting 33'
Last Line: And lets leak through the dead white underneath
Subject(s): Black (color); Kline, Franz (1910-1962); Paintings And Painters; Reinhardt, Ad (1913-1967); Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Stella, Frank (b. 1936); Still, Clyfford (1904-1980)


ICONOCLASTICS: 3. UNTITLED (ROTHKO, NO. 116, 1969), by PAUL KANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flecks of white-like floaters in an inverse eye
Last Line: A perspective that leads to the vanishing point
Subject(s): Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Sky


SHAPE OF HONSHU, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The shape of honshu, or jave? Goldin was unsure as he recalled
Last Line: Hindu gods achieved there that he craved
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Rothko, Mark (1903-1970)


SLEEPING, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have imagined all this
Last Line: When my father and mother made love above rothko %who lay in the day thinking roses, roses, roses
Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Rothko, Mark (1903-1970)


SLOW SONG FOR MARK ROTHKO, by JOHN TAGGART    Poem Source                    
First Line: To breathe and stretch one's arms again
Last Line: To take as the host takes into his house
Subject(s): Rothko, Mark (1903-1970)


THE SLEEPING, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have imagined all this
Last Line: Who lay in the dark thinking  roses, roses, roses
Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple