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Subject: SAXOPHONES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DEXTER GORDON: COPENHAGEN/AVERY FISHER HALL, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last time I listened I turned thirty-six
Last Line: Leaving nothing left to play.
Subject(s): Gordon, Dexter (1923-1990); Memory; Music & Musicians; Saxophones


EVEN MUSIC, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drive toward the juan de fuca strait
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Saxophones; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs


EVEN MUSIC, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drive toward the juan de fuca strait
Last Line: Even the saxophone, its blind, %unearthly moan
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Saxophones; Singing And Singers; Women


GINZA SAMBA, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A monosyllabic european called sax
Subject(s): Saxophones


GINZA SAMBA, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A monosyllabic european called sax
Last Line: Instrument of my skull
Subject(s): Saxophones


HORIZONTAL COSMOLOGY: 4. SAXOPHONE, by CHRISTOPHER GILBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My bell is charlie parker's
Last Line: For you: you must be- %hold enough to play
Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Saxophones


MAJESKI PLAYS THE SAXOPHONE, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He killed his parents
Last Line: And forced out the mouth, %jazz
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Insanity; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Saxophones


OHNEDARUTH, by ANGELA JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My throats
Last Line: Yo mouth knows sweet songs. %I remember
Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Saxophones


POEM IN THE SHAPE OF THE SAXOPHONE, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Refracted through years, this neon light comes back
Last Line: Curve of the horn's cold body, %starts counting time
Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R.
Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Saxophones


WHAT WE SAID THE LIGHT SAID, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mystery moves in god-like ways
Subject(s): God; Mystery; Saxophones; Women