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Subject: WRIGHT, JAMES (1927-1980)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ELEGY FOR WRIGHT & HUGO, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint jerome lived with a community
Last Line: He was a saint. It was like that...
Subject(s): Animals; Donkeys; Hugo, Richard (1923-1982); Jerome, Saint (347-419); Lament; Lions; Wright, James (1927-1980); Burros


ELEVENS, by MARILYN HACKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: James a. Wright, my difficult older brother
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Male-female Relations; Feminism


ELEVENS, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: James a. Wright, my difficult older brother
Last Line: You are the fog of language on manhattan %where it's descending
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980)


FINAL MEETING; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old friend, I dressed in my very best
Last Line: Banked in the gutters with old snow.
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Dead, The; Parting; Feminism


NOT TRANSHISTORICAL DEATH, OR AT LEAST NOT QUITE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jim wright, who was a good poet and my friend, died two or three years ago
Subject(s): Wright, James (1927-1980); Poetry & Poets


POEM FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I read your lines
Last Line: Is still beautiful.
Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Loss; Salvation; War; Wright, James (1927-1980); Inspiration; Creativity


READING JAMES WRIGHT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I go down all the way with you
Last Line: Lank and rambling? She never %threw herself into the sea
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States; Wright, James (1927-1980)


TWO POETS BY THE LAKE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lakeshore modulated to a cove
Last Line: The balked need urgent in your words, and mine.
Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Writing & Writers; Pools; Ponds; Feminism