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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DISUSED SHED IN CO. WEXFORD, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even now there are places where a thought might grow
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


A FABLE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Securely sunning in a forest glade
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


A POEM FOR THE CRUEL MAJORITY, by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cruel majority emerges!
Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Democracy; Caste


A REPORT FROM THE BORDER, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wars in peacetime don't behave like wars
Last Line: "drowned crops, charred hopes, fear, stupor, prayer.
Subject(s): Politics & Politicians; Social Commentaries


ADVENT 1966, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because in vietnam the vision of a burning babe
Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); Advent; War Atrocities; Social Commentaries


ALBANY, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If the function of writing is to 'express the world.' my father withheld child
Subject(s): Family Life; Conduct Of Life; Social Commentaries; Language Poetry; Relatives


ALIENS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chatter of little people
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


ALL RIGHT, YOU HAVE NO MONEY, YOU'VE GIVEN IT UP, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): United States; Working Class; Boredom; Social Commentaries


AN AMERICAN POEM, by EILEEN MYLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was born in boston in
Subject(s): Self; Gays & Lesbians; Ancestors & Ancestry; Boston; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Heritage; Heredity; Caste


AN INTERIM, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While the war drags on, always worse
Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); War Atrocities; Social Commentaries


AT THE GRAVE OF MY GUARDIAN ANGEL: ST. LOUIS CEMETERY, NEW ORLEANS, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At sixteen I was so vulnerable to every influence
Subject(s): Nothingness; Social Commentaries; Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876); Oswald, Lee Harvey (1939-1963); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Nihilism; Voids


AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NOVEMBER 15, 1969, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brown gas-fog, white
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


AUTOBIOGRAPHY: NEW YORK, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not to be bought for a penny
Last Line: And along the streets of los angeles
Subject(s): New York City; Social Commentaries


BETTER THAN HEAVEN, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So many set-asides, you say, intemperate
Last Line: Leads, possible meaning
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


BEYOND WORDS, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you bomb / the ind
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States


BROKEN SONNET, by JOHN YAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world weeps. There are no tears
Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Commentaries


BUSTED BOY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Social Commentaries; United States - Race Relations; Police


CADILLAC MOON, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Basquiat, Jean-michel (1960-1988); Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries


CANTO 3, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mythology; Social Commentaries; Murder


CANTO 36, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lady asks me
Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Social Commentaries; Language; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary


CHEESE, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And those who live on government cheese and carry it
Subject(s): Welfare; Social Commentaries


CIVILIZATION, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those are the people who do complicated things.
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


CLOUDS, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn. First light tearing
Subject(s): Clouds; Social Commentaries


COLOSSUS, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's awesome to have straddled a century
Last Line: To crumble into ruins with it
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Social Commentaries


DAU AL SET, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marking faces smeared with ash
Last Line: That wide room called the world
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


DEAD MEAT, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seismic cracks spreading across plaster bison chained
Last Line: Inside a spine-cracked diary the pages rabbit-eared
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


DEAD POETS OF QUEER POEMS, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Commencement exercises inhibited
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


DEMOCRACY, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; Winter


DOCTOR FROLIC, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Physicians; Doctors


DOSSIER OF IRRETRIEVABLES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night at bar 6
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


DREAMER, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are few probabilities through
Last Line: That it jogs
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea Voyages; Slavery; Faith; Christianity; Social Commentaries


DURING THE WAR, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my brother came home from war
Subject(s): War; Grief; Social Commentaries; Sorrow; Sadness


ECHO & ELIXIR 2, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cairo’s taxi drivers speak to me in english
Last Line: The wicked binds, the cataclysmic fares
Subject(s): Language; Cairo; Taxis; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Enemies; Words; Vocabulary


EL FRUTO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The apple wasn't our true origin
Last Line: It was king-executive, demi-god of the new business
Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Creation


EVE OF ST. AGONY OR THE MIDDLECLASS WAS SITTING ON ITS FAT, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man-dirt and stomachs that the sea unloads; rockets
Subject(s): Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Caste


FEMALE MASCULINITY, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two guys sucking each other in the steam room
Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Gays & Lesbians; Relationships; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


FREELY ESPOUSING, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A commingling sky
Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Genial poets, pink-faced
Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Women; Poetry & Poets


GRASS AND WATER, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The geese have their heaven and I have mine,
Subject(s): Geese; Social Commentaries


HAPPY AS THE DAY IS LONG, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I take the long walk up the staircase to my secret room.
Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Wit & Humor


HELLO, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hello, drug addict, can you become a poem of perfect form?
Last Line: Your napalmed brain and drug-addicted body
Subject(s): Literary Prizes; Poetry & Poets; Social Commentaries; War; Drugs & Drug Abuse


HIS LEGACY, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But a voice blowing away the dust
Last Line: Voice in which no recordings survived
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Social Commentaries


HOTEL FRANCOIS 1ER, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a very little while and they had gone in front of it. It was that they had liked it
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Friendship; Language; City & Town Life; Art & Artists; Social Commentaries; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary


I AM AN ATHEIST WHO SAYS HIS PRAYERS, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Atheism; Social Commentaries


I AM THE PRESIDENT OF REGULATION, by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the giant goliath,
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


IN ORDER TO, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apply for the position (I've forgotten now for what) I had
Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Commentaries


JERSEY TRANSIT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That black woman with the extraordinary earrings
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Social Commentaries; Railways; Trains


KILLS BUGS DEAD, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kills bugs dead. Redundancy is syntactical overkill.
Subject(s): Extermination & Exterminators; Social Commentaries


KONTRANIKI, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cave life in the hebron hills
Last Line: From here to eternity
Subject(s): War; Social Commentaries


LAND, by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swear by the olive in the godf-kissed land
Last Line: Are shahid’s arms broken, o promised land?
Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Islam


LESSONS FROM TELEVISION (SELECTION), by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You must laugh at yourself, laugh and laugh.
Subject(s): Television; Social Commentaries; Tv


LET US HAVE MADNESS OPENLY, O MEN, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A rotting barge of lean huge graves
Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Disappointment


LIFE AT WAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The disasters numb within us
Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); War Atrocities; Social Commentaries


LINCOLN, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Manic-depressive lincoln, national hero!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)


LINES WRITTEN NEAR SAN FRANCISCO, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wake and feel the city trembling.
Subject(s): Caruso, Enrico (1873-1921); United States; Social Commentaries; America


MAJESTY, by KEITH WALDROP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


MUG SHOTS, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In business you have to know people . . . Try selling
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


MY GENERATION READING THE NEWSPAPERS, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We must be slow and delicate; return
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


NAMES, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A few names tell it all
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Names; Social Commentaries


NECROPOLIS, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even in death they prosper; even in the death
Subject(s): Wealth; Poverty; Death; Social Commentaries; Riches; Fortunes; Dead, The


NIAGARA, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Driving westward near niagara, that transfiguring of the waters,
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Nature; Earth; Social Commentaries; World


NOW AND THEN, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the valley
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Social Commentaries; Human Behavior; Social Classes; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caste


ON A TRAILWAYS BUS A MAN WHO HOLDS HIS HEAD STRAGELY SPEAKS TO THE SEAT NEXT TO HIM, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I brought a book to make the time pass
Subject(s): Buses; Human Behavior; Books; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading


OTHERWISE ELSEWHERE, by DAVID RIVARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere over there the lawyer with a yellowish leaf in his hair;
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


POEM ABOUT PEOPLE, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The jaunty crop-haired graying
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Relationships; Jews; Judaism


POEM OF DISCONNECTED PARTS, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: At robben island the political prisoners studied.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Racism; Social Commentaries; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


PRESENT TENSE, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that my ears are connected to a random answer machine,
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


SEVENTH STREET, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts
Subject(s): African Americans; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; United States - Prohibition (1919-1933); Negroes; American Blacks


SIXTH PSALM, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For america is a lady rocking on a porch in an unpainted house
Last Line: Activity. / for america only your dolls are cheerful
Subject(s): United States; Social Commentaries


STRIPPED CAR, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


STUDY IN A LATE SUBWAY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon revovles outside; possibly black air
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


TENDER BUTTONS: A CHAIR, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A widow in a wise veil and more garments shows that shadows are even
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


TENDER BUTTONS: A LIGHT IN THE MOON, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: A light in the moon the only light is on sunday. What was the sensible decision
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


THE AMERICAN PARABLE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good boys are we to have retrieved
Last Line: Each time heavier with gold / and less wieldly
Subject(s): United States; Greed; Social Commentaries


THE ASS FESTIVAL, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pink cum dribbles out my anus
Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE BEASTS, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fresh mollusk morning puts a foot
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Immigrants; Caste; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


THE BECKETT KIT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I finally found a way of using the tree
Last Line: How can you go on saying you’re happy?
Subject(s): Toys; Happiness; Social Commentaries


THE BITTER TEARS OF ALEXANDER SCRIABIN, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A novel begins here
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


THE BLOOMINGFOODS PROMISE, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the ugly man who buys bell peppers
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Social Commentaries


THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Click the grief castanets.
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Skin Condition; Grandparents; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE BUTCHER SHOP, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A disciplined institution
Last Line: Before a block of wood, / a kind of altar
Subject(s): Butchers; Social Commentaries


THE CHILDREN, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In three directions
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


THE LETTER ON THE BRINK OF WAR, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dears, / you're already painting the porch? You ladies are up early
Last Line: And dare we talk about the future? / love, eddie
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Letters; Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; United States


THE MIDNIGHT CLUB, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gifted have told us for years that they want to be loved
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


THE NAME, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Having outlived allen I am the one who
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Social Commentaries


THE NEGATIVE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man hauling coal in the street is stilled forever.
Last Line: Lovers in the summer palace park.
Subject(s): Time; Social Commentaries


THE OLD CHIMAERAS, OLD RECEIPTS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By my old master's feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Communism; Social Commentaries


THE OLD WORLD MOANS AND TOPES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or tell us what they are
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


THE OTHER STARS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tripartite schemes were all very well
Subject(s): Life Choices; Social Commentaries; Relationships


THE OTHERS, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They slept and ate like us.
Subject(s): War; Social Commentaries


THE OVEN LOVES THE TV SET, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stuck on the fridge, our favorite pin-up girl
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


THE POOR, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the mountains I wandered and saw blue haze
Subject(s): Thought; Poverty; Social Commentaries; Thinking


THE REFINERY, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirsty and languorous after their long black sleep
Subject(s): Oil Fields; Social Commentaries


THE SUROUNDED, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They escape before, but their shadows walk behind
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


THE TRAGIC CONDITION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by BERNADETTE MAYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me your tired, your poor
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States


THE UNINVITED, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We did not care muchly who, in the murder
Subject(s): Murder; Social Commentaries


THE WASTE CARPET, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No day is right for the apocalypse,
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


THE WEALTH OF THE DESTITUTE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: How gray and hard the brown feet of the wretched of the earth.
Subject(s): Poverty; Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Caste


THINK OF THE SOUL, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: See, hear, and am silent
Subject(s): Men; Women; Soul; Racism; Past; Death; Social Commentaries; Grief; Conduct Of Life


TO ELSIE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pure products of america
Subject(s): United States; Social Commentaries; America


TO MY COUNTRY, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've never praised you in my poems
Last Line: And blame the poor for being poor
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Social Commentaries


TUNING, by KEITH WALDROP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


UP FROM SLOBBERY, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): African Americans; Language; Social Commentaries; Negroes; American Blacks; Words; Vocabulary


WANDERING AT MORN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Destin'd to fill the world
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


WE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We ought to drop the bomb at once before
Subject(s): Cold War; United States; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; America; Caste


WE SHOULD ALL LIKE ROCKS IN A FLAT FIELD, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the caves today
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


WEALTH OF NATIONS, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tired of the gawking. Conspicuous
Last Line: Putting out after the khrushchev thaw–
Subject(s): Modern Life; Social Commentaries


WHO KILLED THE PLAN?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
Last Line: I killed the plan
Subject(s): Social Commentaries


YOU: PART 1, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard dreams. The moment at which you recognize that your own death lies
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Social Commentaries; Language Poetry; Dead, The