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Subject: WIFE BEATING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THAT, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every story has its lean meat
Last Line: I've kissed her fright.
Subject(s): Rape; Revenge; Slavery; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating


DAN'S WIFE, by KATE TANNATT WOODS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Up in early morning light
Last Line: Dan's wife.
Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating


FOR THESE CONDITIONS THERE IS NO ABORTION, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say the tongue is only praxis
Last Line: Not hangers and quinine and soda.
Subject(s): Abortion; Slavery; Social Problems; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating


FURY; FOR MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember this
Last Line: For this woman's sake.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Obedience; Women - Abused; Black Heritage; Wife Beating


HOME MAINTENANCE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ruin, she says, is the natural order
Last Line: As she raises a glove full of roses.
Subject(s): Marriage; Ruins; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating


IMAGINARY ANCESTORS: THE GIRAFFE WOMAN OF BURMA, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their voices reach us as if from the shaft
Last Line: Lies close to you as air. Help me to hold up my head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Variant Title(s): The Giraffe Women Of Burma
Subject(s): Burma; Women - Abused; Wife Beating


JERRY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machine
Subject(s): Women - Abused; Marriage; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Wife Beating; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Convicts


PAGE 5, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun goes on shining
Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating


SAFE, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones
Subject(s): Women - Abused; Death; Wife Beating; Dead, The


ST. KEVIN AND THE WOMAN OF DERRYBAWN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At night her soul is alive
Last Line: In the world, she lets them fall.
Subject(s): Hunger; Prostitution; Survival; Women - Abused; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Wife Beating


THE FARMERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mouth full of wet bandanna bound
Last Line: Down the steps, back to the fields and the reaping.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Rape; Women - Abused; Agriculture; Farmers; Wife Beating


THE GHOST, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There stands a city, - neither large nor small
Last Line: That mrs. Mason used a cushion in her chair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Women - Abused; Ghosts; Wife Beating


TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Range / a rest / face off
Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating


UNAPPRECIATIVE MAN, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My husband,' sighed the weeping wife
Last Line: "sit upon the floor, and weep and wail forevermore."
Subject(s): Marriage; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating


WITH NO IMMEDIATE CAUSE, by NTOZAKE SHANGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every 3 minutes a woman is beaten
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette
Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating