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Subject: STALIN, JOSEPH (1879-1953)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARKHANGEL'SK, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow goat in winter sunlight
Last Line: Bullets rippling like moles under the plaster.
Subject(s): Death; Goats; Lent; Prisoners Of War; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953); Dead, The


FASHION STATEMENT IN FRONT OF THE MINISTRY OF ART AND CULTURE, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: If stalin were still alive, she'd be locked-up
Last Line: Stalin, dead and impotent, on a bad hair day
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


MARX AND ENGELS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Them two panacea guys
Last Line: At the time of his debut
Subject(s): Communism; Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895); Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


MARX AND ENGELS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Them two panacea guys
Last Line: Maybe none but you and me
Subject(s): Communism; Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895); Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


POEM NO. 286 (ON STALIN), by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We live, not feeling the ground under our feet
Last Line: Whenever he's got a victim, he glows like a broachested %georgian munching a raspberry
Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich
Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


POEM STALIN, by ADRIANO SPATOLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unchangeable indeclinable in gold currency in words
Last Line: But nothing less acceptable than the insult of a period %1879-1945
Subject(s): Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


PROGRESS, by GEORGE ROBERT ACWORTH CONQUEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a great marxist called lenin
Last Line: That grand old marxist stalin did ten in
Subject(s): Communism; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


REPLY TO THE COMMITTED INTELLECTUAL, by FRANCIS SPARSHOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stalin stood committed to peasant hunger
Last Line: As I have done, forgoing the stern beauty %of a white face framed in your avid gunsight
Subject(s): Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN, by MICHAEL BURKARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mother and daughter
Last Line: This stranger was helpful, and now %it does seem like a useful piece of information
Subject(s): Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winds on the stems make them creak like manmade things
Subject(s): Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winds on the stems make them creak like manmade things
Last Line: Joke cruelly, seriously, and be himself
Subject(s): Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN EPIGRAM, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our lives no longer feel ground under them
Last Line: He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries. %he wishes he could hug them like big friends fr
Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich
Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN ISN'T TYPICAL, by IVAN AKHMETEV    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN MOY GOLUBCHIK, by OLGA KATZIN KATZIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! Stalin is my darling, my darling, my darling
Last Line: Stalin, moy golubchik, the old molodyetz
Subject(s): Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN'S HEIRS, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Voiceless that marble. %voicelessly the glass flashed
Last Line: Walking in the light, %I'll feel him, %stalin, in the mausoleum yet
Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni
Subject(s): Scottish Translations; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 3. THE RIGHT TO KILL (MOSCOW, 1913), by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: X and asterisk: shorthand all night flowing
Last Line: Of counter-revolutionary nature? And the blue hand shakes
Subject(s): Books; Mandelstam, Osip (1892-1941); Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 4. IS RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD POSSIBLE?, by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Against the table the cadaver thrashes: its blue arms quiver
Last Line: Its own suttee. The corpse has the final word
Subject(s): Books; Corpses; Lazarus; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 5. RITUAL MURDER AMONG THE JEWS, by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not wait until we force you: we will have the final say
Last Line: The verdict is final, the case is closed
Subject(s): Books; Jews; Russia - Pogroms; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 6. PRACTICAL VERSIFICATION (MOSCOW, 1908), by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Should the couplets be open or should they be closed?
Last Line: Should the couplets be open or should they be closed?
Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 7. PROPOSAL FOR REVISION .. SOVIET ENCYCLOPEDIA, by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The people can be made to swallow anything
Last Line: In his fat fingers its pages flare
Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


THE STALIN EPIGRAM, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our lives no longer feel ground under them
Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich
Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


THERE IS A WORLD: LEE HARVEY OSWALD..., by JOHN BRADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stalin's name was dzhugashvili
Last Line: There is a world inside the world
Subject(s): Oswald, Lee Harvey (1939-1963); Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)


TO THE DEFENDERS OF STALIN, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are those who shouted: 'release %barabbas for us on this feast'
Last Line: Experts in the manufacture of orphans
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)