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Subject: ALIENATION (SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY) Matches Found: 392 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABOUT WRITING POETRY, by SOPHIE SLINGELAND Poem Source First Line: Why take time, with so little time left Last Line: Will find we once had words Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ADMINISTRATOR, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The women are within her, smoking angel dust, sipping tea Last Line: The state is your conservator; the prairie will be your life Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles AFTER THE MAD SONGS OF SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Squeezing a half-eaten peach, %I rub the other palm Last Line: I hear mosquitoes sing Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): After The Fall Of Saigon; After The Noise Of Saigo Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AGAINST SIMPLE READING, by MEREDITH STRICKER Poem Source First Line: My mother's hair is a maze I cannot read Last Line: Against the enemy's decoding, against simple reading Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ALIEN, by NANCY PADDOCK Poem Source First Line: They can enter the window and they will Last Line: That wobbles daily into darkness %into light Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ALPHABET BY THE POOL ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by LUSIA SLOMKOWSKA Poem Source First Line: My mother crawled with the rest Last Line: Put their lips to a straw %and blew the insides out Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles AMONG STRANGERS, by SILVIA CURBELO Poem Source First Line: One lost track of the story Last Line: One licked his empty plate Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social AN OLD HYMN FOR IAN JENKINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things we value in terms of contrast Last Line: Of the dream is place. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Dreams; New York City; Southern States; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; South (u.s.) ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This city is made of stone, of blood, and fish Last Line: To survive? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; Survival; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Indians Of America; American Indians; ANDROGYNY, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: Just when you thought it safe enough Last Line: Which cannot distinguish one sex from the other Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ANOREXIC, by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT Poem Source First Line: It's only the attic I miss Last Line: Where cheers rise from the empty bleaches %again and again, though %I am like a cloud by now, like v Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ANOTHER TIME TRACK, by ILZE MUELLER Poem Source First Line: He's from another time track Last Line: Is the slow rush and thrill of this wild passing %enough forhim? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ANTICIPATION, by SHEILA RICHTER Poem Source First Line: My friend says the vines are prized for making baskets. She Last Line: It killed the lilac bushes and the weight may pull the phone lines down Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ARKANSAS RIVER IS TURGID, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Send word to the ira Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology) ASSIGNMENT, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All of the pens leaked Last Line: Staggered home from boney's bar Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social AT MOTHER TERESA'S, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally there are enough people to hug! Last Line: Her face closes. I will never guess Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social AT MT. AUBURN CEMETERY, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: My father is lying in a green %field, green, green under the sun Last Line: What can I say, I who therefore %cannot be here to say it? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles AT PRESENT I AM WORKING AS A SECURITY GUARD, by EDISON DUPREE Poem Source First Line: Watching a mallard, just beyond Last Line: Feeding species Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN DOE, by JON LAVIERI Poem Source First Line: He got hauled in %on a routine sweep for illegals Last Line: And over there, the man who posed %as a man we all knew Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BABOUCHKA, by SOPHIE SLINGELAND Poem Source First Line: Now, does she still want to live? Last Line: Let her go with her dreams yet unlived? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles BARBELLS OF THE GODS, by MARK COX Poem Source First Line: It's a thursday, getting late Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BATTERED TODDLER, PAGE B6, by ELLEN DORE WATSON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes grown-ups forget you're down there Last Line: Turns out to be, it will be one good mother Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BEE MOTHER, by MEREDITH STRICKER Poem Source First Line: Mother - anya, meh Last Line: We speak or will never hear Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles BEGGARS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each day as I leave holiday health spa Last Line: Of stones dripping green blood, and rotting plums Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BEING A MONSTER, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: You talk about disappointment Last Line: That you and I share almost nothing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BELOVED SPIC, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the new white neighborhood Last Line: With a sign that read: for sale Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BLACK IRISH BLUES (1), by JOE-ANNE MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: Already this tremor in my hands Last Line: Understand, it killed me just the same Variant Title(s): Companion Piece Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BLACK SHEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From their folded mates they wander far Last Line: And marvel, out in the cold. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Hearts; Night; Sheep; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Estrangement; Outcasts; Bedtime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Fatigue BLUENESS OF THE DAY: 1. MIZUNO IN PARIS (1947), by DAVID MURA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It happened in an instant Last Line: Of my eyes, the alien energy thrashing her thighs, %but no, it's just my face, that implacable mask Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BODO, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We could weep for him Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts BODO, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We could weep for him Last Line: In which a fish head floated Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BOOK OF HUMAN ANOMALIES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maud stevens received her first tattoo in 1904 Last Line: In and out of breath through our complex sleeps %astonishing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Last Line: No one. Red notes sounding in a grey trolley town Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States BOTTLED, by JILL BRECKENRIDGE Poem Source First Line: When mother's drinking, the door to my room Last Line: I love you. You! Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles BROKEN SONNETS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: After supper in the big room Last Line: The one god and the angels forgot. Or simply missed Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BROTHER BODY, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Here I am, awakened by accident Last Line: I plug in the shaver, lift myself to it. Now today Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social BURIAL, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carrying tapers in soft white hands Last Line: On the antichrist's last bed. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Churches; Funerals; Graves; Life; Sea; Estrangement; Outcasts; Cathedrals; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean BURIAL, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have fenced in the dirt road Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts BURIAL, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have fenced in the dirt road Last Line: Them sad. But seen from the angle of her death Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles CAJUN, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN Poem Source First Line: I want to take the word back into my body, back Last Line: Again, the word's been stolen, like me %gutted Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CANCIONES, by KENNETH ZAMORA DAMACION Poem Source First Line: What told us that the day was over? Last Line: Perhaps, they'll call out to us Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CASE STUDY: ABUSE, BUT THE GIRL'S ROOM CLEAN . . ., by GAYLE ROGERS KAUNE Poem Source First Line: Meanwhile, the child regresses Last Line: The rungs of her chair, vibrate %with their eager feet Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles CHRISTMAS IN THE MIDWEST, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: I brought a lover home Last Line: Without their disapproval, the headlights %of a straight society to validate us Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono Last Line: I placed her %between my clothes in my packed suitcase. %that is how we left him %forever Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence COMMENT ON MY HOST, by MARK SOLOMON Poem Source First Line: What a relief to be speaking again, restored Last Line: Though he shakes his head, mumbling into his beard Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CONSENT, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arrows striking all sides of the body and st. Sebastian smiling Last Line: A little of what already exists and the towering sense of kindnesses no world can offer? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts CONSENT, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arrows striking all sides of the body and st. Sebastian smiling Last Line: A little of what already exists and the towering sense of kindness no %world can offer? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CONSPIRACY, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: The cambodian kids speak english faster Last Line: The smile that translates all-clear, truce, %ok, hello. That says the kids can stay Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CORPOREAL, by ROBERT A. AYRES Poem Source First Line: In seventh grade larry saclarides had a gym locker next to mine, and Last Line: Desire's root will grow Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social COYOTE'S DISGUISE AS A MAN IS UP, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Coyote eats a tuna sandwich at her desk Last Line: Now she was life itself. Star of texas. Blessing and gratitude Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles CRITIC, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the boston public library on boylston street, where all the bums come Last Line: And start again: page one, chapter one, his blood-rimmed eyes as rapt as %david's doing psalms Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CROSSROADS' BURIAL (SUGGESTED BY GALSWORTHY'S APPLE TREE), by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Green at the crossroads lifts the narrow mound Last Line: And her proud feet have found a pathway home. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Funerals; Roads; Suicide; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Paths; Trails CRYPTO-JEWS, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This summer, reading the history of the jews of spain Last Line: Weather, peddle our goods and die into the future Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CUANDO EL TEOLOTE CANTA, EL INDIO MUERE, by CONSUELO DE AERENLUND Poem Source First Line: Long before the spainards came Last Line: Slowly fill with tears Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CURE, by EUGENE WILDMAN Poem Source First Line: Everyone in here hates. That is why this place is called a clinic Last Line: The bars you are on Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social CURRENT NOW, VOYAGER FANTASY, by REMY HOLZER Poem Source First Line: I am standing tensely at the desk Last Line: The woman with a past, the voyager, camille Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DAVID'S RUMOR, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am busy doing drawings Last Line: This riot, that hall, that vacancy and pressure %wherein we draw towards goodbye Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DAY LILY AND THE FOX, by EMILY HIESTAND Poem Source First Line: An irish soul walks away from paddy's Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DEFLECTION TOWARD THE RELATIVE MINOR, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were partakers of a strange taste. - at the hour when Last Line: In the evening ground when the bell Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Night; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Bedtime DEFLECTION TOWARD THE RELATIVE MINOR, by FORREST GANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were partakers of a strange taste. - at the hour when Last Line: Sounded for [evening] prayer Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Night DEPRESSIVE EPISODE, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: It's funny, but I don't remember much Last Line: Of health has tried to take her life. They hate her Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DESTINY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am eating cold chinese Last Line: I love you. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Drugs & Drug Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts DIALOGUE ON FINDING SOMEPLACE TO LIVE; AFTER ANNE SEXTON, by LORI STORIE-PAHLITZSCH Poem Source First Line: When we were small we could call anything home Last Line: When we were little we could call anything home Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles DIARY, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am at last that thing, a stranger in my own life Last Line: And holding on between the few late pinched tomatoes %and the whistling dove Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Diaries; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DIRINGER'S THE ALPHABET: A KEY TO THE HISTORY OF MANKIND, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: I wanted . . .A guneaform, a woman's form Last Line: But as I said, wiped out Variant Title(s): On First Looking Into Diringer's The Alphabet: A Key To The Histor Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles DISAPPEARED WOMAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I am the disappeared woman Last Line: Name myself. %call my name Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Women DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I am the disappeared woman Last Line: Call my name Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons; Exiles; Human Rights DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Now with everybody %disappeared Last Line: Charred %by moldering blood? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 3, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Find her, %uncover her Last Line: On her saint's day Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 4, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I dream her by roadsides Last Line: And on thresholds %I embrace her Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 5, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I had no witnesses Last Line: Because I never went to my %own funeral Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DISAPPEARED WOMAN: 6, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Mother %I know you are calling me Last Line: Filled with daggers and serpents Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina DIVORCED, by DONALD SHARE Poem Source First Line: The air swimming with the bugs' forlorn morse code on a hellish mid-morning Last Line: The wind insistent, out rhythm inconstant, my thoughts divorced Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DOOMSAYERS, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some say because the tallest pine Last Line: And they are wrong, all of them. %wrong Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles DOUBLE, by JOAN ALESHIRE Poem Source First Line: Attractive at that distance, hair fanning out Last Line: Her true, betraying sister Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DOWNTOWN SUNDAY, by ROBERT+(2) CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: The amputated husband Last Line: Main street's like a lost %funeral procession Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social DUST AND BLUE, by CYNTHIA OLSON Poem Source First Line: All eyes watch the sky. The boring blue sky. No thunder-heads Last Line: The child, so real, obediently in tow Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EDGE, by SANDRA PRICE Poem Source First Line: I set the shorelines of the world by perpetual decrees, so Last Line: Gifts that come through gracem which has no bounds Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ELINOR FROST'S MARBLE-TOPPED KNEADING TABLE, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine that motion, the turning and pressing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts ELINOR FROST'S MARBLE-TOPPED KNEADING TABLE, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine that motion, the turning and pressing Last Line: Clang open the door, tosses another stick %on the fire Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ELLIS ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 1907 (1), by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sadie, who was only twelve, wrote each letter down Last Line: Where she could become it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Marginality, Social; Names ELM TREE ON LAFAYETTE STREET, by ROD KESSLER Poem Source First Line: Thinks it's all junk these days, the routine Last Line: Thinks. Just look at me. And it bugs him that we don't get it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EMIGRANT - IMMIGRANT I, by RINA FERRARELLI Poem Source First Line: From the people %beyond reckoning of generations Last Line: They don't know, do you? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EMIGRANT - IMMIGRANT II, by RINA FERRARELLI Poem Source First Line: A slight accent. %forming Last Line: A bridge, a border town Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ENDURING WITNESS, THE MOSQUES OF KATTANKUDI, by PETER MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: Muhammad wheels us through Last Line: Upon those durable imperatives %grace and hospitality Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EPIPHANY, by NANCY PADDOCK Poem Source First Line: My church is filled with snow Last Line: I kneel, %baptized, in a rush %of melting Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EROSION, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Parachuting into the desert is a quiet arrival Last Line: Eroding the shore beneath the nomad's feet Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO WORK CAN, by BROOKE WIESE Poem Source First Line: A woman at the lecture waves her hand Last Line: And who cannot read any of these words? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, by MARTIN JUDE FARAWELL Poem Source First Line: I sit %in the second-to-last seat Last Line: The dumbest one in the room Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Kindergarten; Marginality, Social EVOLUTION OF APPETITE, by KELLEEN ZUBICK Poem Source First Line: Think about st. Joan without Last Line: Divoting, then lifting to end Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EXAMPLE, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The papers on my desk out of hand Last Line: Smile my abiding smile and work and work Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EXILE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time came for him to be released Last Line: The unruly fiction which he labored to believe Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EXILE, by MARTA FENYVES Poem Source First Line: The train started to take off Last Line: What - will - tomorrow - %bring Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EXILE, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: He returned to grass two feet tall Last Line: Felt his feet settling on the road Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EXILE'S LETTER: AFTER THE FAILED REVOLUTION, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A world exists beyond the limits of this pane Last Line: On regret road we must not tarry Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EXILES, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: My father, listening Last Line: They leaned toward news %that never came Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social EXILES, by JUDY F. HAM Poem Source First Line: My father beat the robins Last Line: And never brought my babies home Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles EXMATRIATE, by JACQUELINE LAPIDUS Poem Source First Line: Waking to drizzle and the inevitable Last Line: Eating dry bread in steerage %for a glimpse of the new world Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FALLING FOR JESUS, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For years I wanted to trade Last Line: In a slack face-the pose %of a woman in love Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social FAREWELL, by FLORENCE CHARD DACEY Poem Source First Line: I search %for the straight path Last Line: How we love you! %but we are leaving Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FEW WORDS IN THE MOTHER TONGUE, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lemoshl: for example Last Line: Zi kholmt %di hor %di lange shvartse hor %zi kholmt %zi kholmt %zi kholmt Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FIRST LESSONS, REDUX, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the hunter who is cunning Last Line: But a moth dying on the screen %leaving her face-powder Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FISH STORY: HOW LANGUAGE CARRIES US INTO THE UNKNOWN, by BRIGITTE FRASE Poem Source First Line: We practice our scales Last Line: They have secret names %but only we can sing them Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FLAMES LIGHT UP THE ROUGH WALLS AND EARNEST FACES, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With none among the travelers about you Last Line: A little chapel in a housedress of windless pink dawn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dinners & Dining; Housekeeping; Housewives; Estrangement; Outcasts FLIGHT OF APOLLO, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth was my home, but even there I was a stranger. This mineral crust. Last Line: The intelligence of the stars Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social FLOATER, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had to push myself Last Line: Kept it dark and no one came Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology) FOR A WOMAN MURDERED WHILE RUNNING AT LAND'S END, OCT. 1979, by PATRICIA KIRKPATRICK Poem Source First Line: Late in the fall Last Line: It is hard to keep going Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FOR DEAR LIFE, by ALANE ROLLINGS Poem Source First Line: Before we pushed off for moon in manana land Last Line: In this mess of a sea that never settles Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social FOR MY MOTHER, WHO LIVES: 4, by LORRAINE JEAN DUGGIN Poem Source First Line: We come from a long line Last Line: Reach a despairing hand across me %not that night, anyway Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ancestors And Ancestry; Exiles; Mothers FOR THE DRUNK, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Poem Source First Line: Where the river cleaves Last Line: I hand him his hat Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social FOR THE RECORD; IN MEMORY OF ELEANOR BUMPURS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call out the colored girls Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Bumpurs, Eleanor; Exiles; Labor & Laborers; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Work; Workers FOR THE RECORD; IN MEMORY OF ELEANOR BUMPURS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call out the colored girls Last Line: Planning their return %and they weren't even %sisters Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Bumpurs, Eleanor; Exiles; Labor And Laborers; Violence FOREIGNERS, by MEREDITH STRICKER Poem Source First Line: When I meet gustavo and hilda Last Line: Believing against all evidence, no one will take this away Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FORKED TONGUE, by HELEN RUGGIERI Poem Source First Line: Celtic tribes speak an anapestic lilt Last Line: One to be thought in, one to be loved %one for the heart, one for the head Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles FREEDOM, by CAROLINA HOSPITAL Poem Source First Line: For 20 years they hid your words Last Line: Here, a poem %doesn't upset anyone Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Censorship; Exiles FROM AN OFFICE WINDOW, by FRANCES M. BALLARD Poem Text First Line: The tulip bed is flaming in the square Last Line: Than in this high tower where I stand. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Flowers; Office Work; Estrangement; Outcasts GENEALOGY, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from alcohol Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts GENEALOGY, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from alcohol Last Line: And all that I could ever hope to bear Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles GERONTION, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am, an old man in a dry month Last Line: Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Decay; Emptiness; Old Age; Estrangement; Outcasts; Rot; Decadence GOING OUT FOR CIGARETTES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a story as famous as the three little pigs Last Line: Downstream, and its upturned reflection in the water Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts GOING OUT FOR CIGARETTES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a story as famous as the three little pigs Last Line: Nothing but the arc of the stone bridge he notices %downstream, and its upturned reflection in the w Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social GOOD DEVIL, by KURT BROWN Poem Source First Line: He was bad at torture. Flubbed his first flaying Last Line: Glistening with everlasting life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social GRAND TRADITION OF WESTERN CULTURE, by JULIA STEIN Poem Source First Line: My girlhood was surrounded by flickering screens Last Line: Their ghosts from the death camps %will be in the aisles and rooms screaming Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles GREEN MARKET, NEW YORK, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first day of false spring, I hit the street Last Line: Whoever puts his hand to the plow and looks back %is not fit for the kingdom of god Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles GRIEF, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: After the ghanaian dancing we fought Last Line: What does africa %mean to a black new yorked? And why %did you hurt so hard you had to sleep? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles GUARDIAN ANGEL, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Afloat between lives and stale truths Last Line: Beneath the surfaces of the world Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social GWENDOLYN BROOKS, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She doesn't wear %costume jewelry Last Line: Bro, they been calling that sister by the wrong name Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social HANDFUL OF PEBBLES, MOUTHFUL OF STONES, by PEGATHA HUGHES Poem Source First Line: So serious. Why don't you smile?' Last Line: Finally, I leave that place Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles HARLEM, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: There was little more that summer Last Line: To keep ourselves from burning up %so hot the sun in our hearts Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles HE WILL NOT HEAR, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He will not see the leaf-green sky Last Line: By their transparent number Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology) HEIRLOOM, by CINDA THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: My great-grandmother's native %american eyes stare back Last Line: Her son would ever wish %to know Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles HERBIE, by DAVID ALPAUGH Poem Source First Line: Was almost eighteen years old Last Line: You can have my fucking tricycle, herbie Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social HOMEGOING, by BRIGITTE FRASE Poem Source First Line: Hoboken was the first stop Last Line: With one finger I followed the grain of the world Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Gays & Lesbians; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Homosexuality; Marginality, Social HOW SHE OPERATES, by GRACE CAROLINE BRIDGES Poem Source First Line: She holds you by the hair Last Line: All in good time Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles HOW TO APPROACH YOUR LOVER'S WIFE, by AMY BOTTKE Poem Source First Line: Spot her, but don't lock on her Last Line: Chat recipes with the host Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social I LEARNED TO SEW, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How can I say this? Last Line: Say that I am not going back %I am staying here Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles IMAGINATION, by DINA UAHUPIRAPI Poem Source First Line: Here I am six years old in sub b, sitting on the big rock Last Line: Shiny memory to take with me to travel around the world Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles IN AND OUT OF CHECKPOINTS, by YE WEILIAN Poem Source First Line: Is the river a boundary line? Last Line: Is the sea a boundary line? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social IN HERITAGE FARMS, SETTLED, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In their tennis whites, their pastel izods, all day the women Last Line: Of the hornworm inching toward the wings of the phoenix moth. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Consumerism; Discontent; Popular Culture - United States; Suburbs; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction IN THE BARN, by ROGER FANNING Poem Source First Line: A cat composed as an uncut pie Last Line: How they beg to be devoured Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social IN THE BASEMENT OF THE GOODWILL STORE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In musty light, in the thin brown air Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts IN THE BASEMENT OF THE GOODWILL STORE, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In musty light, in the thin brown air Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Students IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Last Line: Des moines, I was saying to myself %baton rouge. Terre haute. Boise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations IN THE NEW COUNTRY, by BARBARA RAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love america. Ham bones and shoes Last Line: We'll feed to the pig in the cellar Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, SIXTEEN MONTHS SOBER, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To find words for this Last Line: I'm picking up %this pen Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the body Last Line: Though you utter %every one of my words, %you are a stranger. %it's time you spoke.' Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social INNER MONGOLIA - THE GRASSLANDS, by SIBYL JAMES Poem Source First Line: The road climbs steeply till it crests above the hills Last Line: That circle of protection, keeping always on the edge %of longing, unable to swing home Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles INSOMNIA LITANY, by JOAN LOGGHE Poem Source First Line: I am a jew among sunflowers, a jew Last Line: Of the unlabeled. An uncircumcised sleep Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social INTERSPECIES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was teaching a residency in cincinnati Subject(s): Loneliness; Alienation (social Psychology); Friendship; Zoos; Estrangement; Outcasts INVISIBILITY POEM: LESBIAN, by ILZE MUELLER Poem Source First Line: There's quite enough to %identify her Last Line: The times she imagines %the price she pays for Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles INVISIBLE BOUNDARIES, by MAUREEN VIOLA HURLEY Poem Source First Line: No conozco la palabra to say I sometimes miss you en espanol Last Line: How easily I was replaced by the one %who wears your daughter's face Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ITINERARY, by DOUG ANDERSON Poet's Biography First Line: In arizona coming across the border with dope in my tires Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Estrangement; Outcasts ITINERARY, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In arizona coming across the border with dope in my tires Last Line: Through the heart. Corazone. Corragio. Core Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 JERUSALEM SHADOW, by MELANIE KAYE-KANTROWITZ Poem Source First Line: Imagine the desert the cast of light Last Line: Let my people heal Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles JEWISH, by HARVEY M. PLOTNICK Poem Source First Line: My skin is white, but my name is foreign, a dark reflection Last Line: And sometimes you sudder as I stir in mass graves Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jews; Marginality, Social JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A cold coming we had of it Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi; Estrangement; Outcasts; Nativity, The JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cold coming we had of it Last Line: With an alien people clutching their gods. %I should be glad of another death Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi KNEADING BREAD, by TERESA ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: There is a rhythm to it Last Line: Of the heel of your hand %do not be afraid Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles KNIFE-THROWER'S WIFE, by MEKEEL MCBRIDE Poem Source First Line: The knife-thrower's wife stands Last Line: Like a crowd of adoring suitors Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along Last Line: Until we're even. Until the last %coin is rubbed for luck and spent. %I don't sell for nothing less Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States LAZARUS, by RONALD BOYD KOERTGE Poem Source First Line: After jesus raised him from the dead Last Line: God's name in vain on his cracked and loamy lips Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LEARNING MY FATHER'S LANGUAGE, by LORRAINE JEAN DUGGIN Poem Source First Line: He tells me about the time Last Line: Pronouncing from his first year %reader a word he sees on the page: %em-er-gen-cy Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles LEARNING THE WAR, by WENDY WILDER LARSEN Poem Source First Line: I never made friends faster Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LEAVING, by MARGOT FORTUNATO Poem Source First Line: Who would have guessed she didn't have everything Last Line: No one saw her afterwards Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles LEAVING EDEN, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The date palm and the cypress Last Line: Before we tasted murder, mortality Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women's Rights LEAVING THE COUNTRY, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: He drifts into a room of strangers Last Line: Or run across the wet summer grass Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LEAVING THE OLD GODS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The people who watch me hang my coat Last Line: I can't understand your words Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Central America; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature LEFT EYE OF ODIN, by REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN Poem Source First Line: She knows them all. Urchins. Beggars Last Line: In the garden, a bird rings the bell %of sky Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles LESSON, by KATHLEEN CAIN Poem Source First Line: Pride got passed at the breakfast table Last Line: No. He said. Worse. %worse Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles LETTERS FROM AN EXILE, by VALERIE DUFF Poem Source First Line: Trotsky's dead. My strays Last Line: We argue, we sweat Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LIFE WAS ALL ABOUT HIM, by MAUDE ARNEY FARNSWORTH Poem Text First Line: I heard a boy, a high - school boy Last Line: Both death and birth. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Boys; Towns; Estrangement; Outcasts LINE UP, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once again, someone took me %for another black man, my brother Last Line: Presuming it belonged to me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social LINEAGE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmothers were strong Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Alphabet Verse; Ancestors & Ancestry; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Heritage; Heredity LINEAGE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmothers were strong Last Line: My grandmothers were strong. %why am I not as they? Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Alphabet Verse; Ancestors And Ancestry; Women LISA'S RITUAL, AGE 10, by GRACE CAROLINE BRIDGES Poem Source First Line: Afterwards when he is finished with her Last Line: It is tall like a promise %only better Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Child Molesting; Exiles LITTLE BOY LOST, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wood was rather old and dark Last Line: Till hunger and darkness make an end Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology) LITTLE CITIZEN, LITTLE SURVIVOR, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A brown rat has taken up residence with me Last Line: Lend me your presence, and I will lend you mine. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Rats; Estrangement; Outcasts LIVING IN AT LEAST TWO WORLDS, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Back from the spring in the green draw Last Line: Glad the oat-man's home Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature LONG DIVISION: A TRIBAL HISTORY, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our skin loosely lays Last Line: I suckle coyotes and grieve Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature MACENATTOWAWIN (BIRCH BARK BITING), by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: The white bark is peeled from the birch. The layers pulled apart Last Line: Bringing her bitings from the dark Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles MAGNIFICAT!, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: Tonight, on holiday in oxford, bach's magnificat Last Line: Gloria et spiritui sancto Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MAL'OCCHIO, by JENNIFER MARTELLI Poem Source First Line: The red pepper hangs from a nail Last Line: Muffled goodness. Beneficent abstraction. Snuffed flame Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MAN IN THE MOON, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: White-faced, white-suited, as big as the full moon in the tropical sky Last Line: Black sky like a terrible white sign: they know you wherever you are Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MANIC: A CONVERSATION WITH JIMI HENDRIX, by TIMOTHY SEIBLES Poem Source First Line: All these hang-ups, all this time wasted when Last Line: Is a smile, you know Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MANUMISSION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, you are free! When you are satisfied Last Line: Your love can leave no room for loneliness. Subject(s): Absence; Alienation (social Psychology); Love; Separation; Isolation; Estrangement; Outcasts MARK, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: Shatterfall. Scutter Last Line: This isn't about truth Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MAX JACOB AT SAINT BENOIT, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noonday square. Plane leaves, dust Last Line: " at drancy. There, the nazis let him die - a sick old jew? - ""natural death. "" " Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts MAX JACOB AT SAINT BENOIT, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noonday square. Plane leaves, dust Last Line: - an old jew with pneumonia - 'naturally.' Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MEMORY OF WILMINGTON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty-some years ago, hitchhiking Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts MEMORY OF WILMINGTON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty-some years ago, hitchhiking Last Line: Was far along on its way to becoming a city %and already well advanced on its way back to dust Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MEN WITHOUT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is a coward, and I have grown Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Fathers & Sons; Love; Estrangement; Outcasts MENNONITES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We keep our quilts in closets and do not dance Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Amish; Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts; Mennonites MENNONITES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We keep our quilts in closets and do not dance Last Line: That we lift, as chaff lifts, toward god Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Amish; Exiles MIAMI HEART, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a long text, on live tv, in an amphitheater, in the soil Last Line: One writes with one's desire. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Popular Culture - United States; Writing & Writers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction MIDLIFE, by JOSEPH MILLAR Poem Source First Line: She's slim and seems distracted, the social worker Last Line: And the wind in th trees outside %like someone passing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MISFIT, by ROSEMARY FARRAR Poem Text First Line: His mother did not think about Last Line: Then raised it shyly to his lips. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Mothers; Estrangement; Outcasts MONARCHS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All morning, as I sit thinking of you Last Line: The beauty and silence of the great migrations Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Longing MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body is a white thing in the sun, now Last Line: Polished and swarming frankly in the sun Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MOTHER, by BEA LIU Poem Source First Line: I wish that I could talk with her again Last Line: You're a big girl now. You can work things out Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Maturity MOTHER TONGUE, by CAROLINA HOSPITAL Poem Source First Line: A dark cul de sac Last Line: I cannot answer %I have stopped speaking Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles MOVE 5 HOUSES DOWN THE STREET IN A DAY, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Iron horse. Ah ho. Iron lung. Rattling the air. Squeezing out smoke Last Line: The nurse of the heart saying soon it will get well Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles MR. FLOOD'S PARTY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old eben flood, climbing alone one night Last Line: That many friends had opened long ago. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Drinks & Drinking; Old Age; Solitude; Toasts; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts; Wine; Loneliness MURDERER, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: As I talked, I kept thinking Last Line: I hardly know what I've done Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MUTE PROPHETS, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: There is a language before Last Line: And the world %will tremble Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social MY FIRST MEMORY, SWITZERLAND, CIRCA 1947, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE Poem Source First Line: I think I was not yet two Last Line: Snorting hugely %& drank up all my water Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles MY MOTHER'S HOMELAND, by BELKIS CUZA MALE Poem Source First Line: My mother always said Last Line: The place where she would die Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles NAME THE OLDEST MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY, by KALAMU YA SALAAM Poem Source First Line: The baby, the newborn, is the oldest Last Line: Eternity are wise enough to distinguish Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NAZIS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god they're all gone Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts NAZIS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god they're all gone Last Line: I can see he's not one of us Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NEW BOY, by PETER E. MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Crossing brooklyn ferry from staten island Last Line: To play with, someone mean enough to take him in? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NEW NETHERLAND, 1654, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: Pardon us for uttering a handful Last Line: To tales unstamped by laws and never sacred Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NEW REFUGEE, by MARISELLA VEIGA Poem Source First Line: Stands %outside my door this morning Last Line: Come in. Have lunch. In this house %we are not without a gun Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Refugees NEW YORK CITY MIRA MIRA BLUES, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the freeway you can almost Last Line: A shroud of down, stilling, if only %for a moment, the island's screams Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City NEWS UPDATE; FOR ERHART, GITTLESON, FLYNN & STONE, HAPILY DEAD & GONE, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, here I am in the centre daily times Last Line: Oh, big sighs. Windy sighs. And ghostly laughter. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The NIGHT SHIFT AT THE FRUIT CANNERY, by ILZE MUELLER Poem Source First Line: The thin neon light spills on the hands in the tubs Last Line: Still dazzle-eyed, they look up and see %stars in their multitudes blazing over their heads Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles NO TOOL OR ROPE OR PAIL, by BOB ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: It hardly mattered what time of year Last Line: And they waved Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NOBODY HERE BUT US, by RICHARD GARCIA Poem Source First Line: Being old is not so bad. You wake up Last Line: And spin that chicken over my head, spraying blood like rain Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social NOCHEBUENA, by ROSARIO CAICEDO Poem Source First Line: Where I come from we have no snow Last Line: Sometimes I feel %that I've been left %with nothing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles NOSTALGIA, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why look back at the old roads again? Drugs and buggery flourished. My Last Line: Under those wheels...Oh, I welcome it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social OBON: FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of the festival uncle leads our Last Line: The sky is aflame as thousands of silent roman %candles float out with the tide Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Japanese Americans - Internment; Rites And Ceremonies OF BEING NUMEROUS, 14, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot even now Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Veterans; City & Town Life; Estrangement; Outcasts OF BEING NUMEROUS, 9, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts OH, IMMOBILITY, DEATH'S VAST ASSOCIATE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, immobility, death's vast associate, you are the still center around which we jog. Last Line: The reality? To bang your drum in the mortal parade. And the dream? To believe yourself dancing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Inertia OHIO IS THE IROQUOIS WORD FOR BEAUTIFUL, by HELEN RUGGIERI Poem Source First Line: The moon is nailed to the 'river' %by a great horn of light....' Last Line: A great corucopia %flowing into the ohio Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles OLD FOLSOM PRISON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This could be scotland: a crag and far below Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts OLD FOLSOM PRISON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This could be scotland: a crag and far below Last Line: There was room for air, if you were there Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, by GERALD COSTANZO Poem Source First Line: There was a time in my life when Last Line: Neighborhood %once more Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social OLMOS, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: A man walks a dusty road Last Line: That will mould me out of ashes Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ON A CERTAIN FIELD IN AUVERS, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the road to hallucination Last Line: And the great light of the sun Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts ON A CERTAIN FIELD IN AUVERS, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the road to hallucination Last Line: And the great light of the sun Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ON BEING KICKED OUT OF THE HAROLD WASHINGTON LIBRARY CENTER FOR NAPPIN, by THOM WARD Poem Source First Line: Above me no seraphim or nymphs Last Line: Dear james I too %have wasted my life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ON BEING TOLD I DON'T SPEAK LIKE A BLACK PERSON, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emphasize the h, you ignorant ass Last Line: Greetings familiar %in any language Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON LOVE: MARINA TSVETAEVA, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Human thresholds are meant to be crossed Last Line: I would be a wing that soars for love Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Love - Unrequited; Tsvetayeva, Marina (1892-1941); Estrangement; Outcasts ON RETURNING, by BRIGITTE FRASE Poem Source First Line: Today I learn 'tamarisk' Last Line: The mountains will go with me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ON TV THE FACE OF THE SLAUGHTERED, by LYLE GLAZIER Poem Source Last Line: Hungry, in fact, as hell Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ONE POLAR BEAR, by PETER SEARS Poem Source First Line: You know how in the zoo most of the polar bears Last Line: I know about rubbing yourself away on the bars Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ONE SECRET THAT HAS CARRIED, by JASON SHINDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Irene loves a man %who is afraid of sex: she's attended Last Line: Would say it was somebody else's Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE. SILENCE, by LUCIA CORDELL GETSI Poem Source First Line: April. I have wheeled you to the park Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles ORIGINAL MIND, by NANCY PADDOCK Poem Source First Line: Though the world fills with sorrow and rage Last Line: Stumbling over the very roots %of paradise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles OTHER SIDE, by MEREDITH STRICKER Poem Source First Line: The country she inhabits, where pale people Last Line: As you cross the stage, cross the mirrors %in a saffron dress, turning and returning Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles PARACHUTIST'S WIFE, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Six men turned to smoke in the next square Last Line: In my bone cave %I marry the wind Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles PARADING WITH THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apache, omaha, osage, choctaw, comanche, cherokee, oglala, micmac Last Line: Absence of buffalo here in the %gateway to the west, st louis Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Variant Title(s): Parading With The V.f.w Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Depressions, Economic; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians PARALYTIC, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happens. Will it go on? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Pain; Estrangement; Outcasts; Suffering; Misery PARALYTIC, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happens. Will it go on? Last Line: Drunk on its own scents, %asks nothing of life Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Pain PAREDON, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: Staring down the mountainous wall Last Line: Cursed island who has never known its sick from itself Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PARTY, by DONALD FINKEL Poem Source First Line: They're throwing a party upstairs Last Line: With, my delectable sea-grape %I do without Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PASSING (2), by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A professor invites me to his black lit class; they're Last Line: My father quizzed me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts PASSING (2), by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A professor invites me to his black lit class; they're Last Line: What do you think %he would always write?' my father'd say Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PATHOLIGIST, by ELLEN DUDLEY Poem Source First Line: If he turns them, they are purple, black from head to heel Last Line: Cool belly, his whole body tingling Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PAUL VERLAINE AT THE GRAVE OF LUCIEN LETINOIS, by BIN RAMKE Poem Source First Line: What does the world with its lung of ocean breathe Last Line: He could not buy his bones Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PEOPLE AT THE PAY TELEPHONE, by VICTORIA MCCABE Poem Source First Line: A husband or a lover has run this one out Last Line: Eating fine food, talking to people Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker / slapped the back of my head Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools; Estrangement; Outcasts; Words; Vocabulary; Students PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker %slapped the back of my head Last Line: In your palm, the ripe weight Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools PHARAOH'S ARMY GOT DROWNDED, by LYNN DOMINA Poem Source First Line: The cop's face for an odd second Last Line: In any world but ours Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PHOTO THAT WATCHES, by CARLOTA CAULFIELD Poem Source First Line: I, who have been so many angels Last Line: You, who have been so many angels Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles PICNIC, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother and child activate the lawn Last Line: The yard explodes. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Suburbs; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction PICTURE FROM MY COUSIN, by ILZE MUELLER Poem Source First Line: I wanted to write about these children on the beach, but what can Last Line: And my heart clenches with fear and with love for these %children, the summer after chernobyl Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles PILLAR OF FLAME, by BARBARA UNGER Poem Source First Line: A clumsy cross burns Last Line: I dig the pit again. %I kneel inside Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles PLANTINGS, by CATALINA CARIAGA Poem Source First Line: Everywhere %they go %they plant Last Line: Gardenias %are birds %of paradise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles POEM, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was something I can't bring myself Last Line: I pulled to the side of the road and wrote this poem Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social POEM FOR MY GRANDMOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Minukha, minukha, here comes your faigl's rukhl Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women POEM FOR NATALIA GINZBURG, by ANITA HELLE Poem Source First Line: When natalia ginzburg died, the papers of her region declared Last Line: The nocturnal pause between two pronouns, you and I Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social POEM FOR THE MAN WHO SAID SHIT, by DAVID CLEWELL Poem Source First Line: At first I lost it in your beard Last Line: The sergeant will say it's people like me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social POETS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What were they like as schoolboys? Long on themes Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social POPULIST, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed myself of their people, I am of their people Subject(s): Social Protest; Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts PORTRAIT, by BEVERLY ACUFF MOMOI Poem Source First Line: Hair - shiny black geisha hair Last Line: Please be nice to me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Sexism PORTRAIT, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Trespasser in my own house Last Line: Not even the dog knows me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PRAYER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts PRAYER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take Last Line: Either life you choose will end in her arms Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women PROMENADE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His head split in four parts Last Line: Are the leaves, touching each other and the sun Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology) PUT A WOMAN INTO THE MEMORY BOX, by BRIGITTE FRASE Poem Source First Line: Steady in the darkness Last Line: Gazing quietly at your image Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles QUICKNESS OF FEAR, by BEVERLY ACUFF MOMOI Poem Source First Line: Putting away wedding gifts Last Line: I am waiting for you %to leave me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RACIAL MEMORIES, by ELIZABETH MISCHE JOHN Poem Source First Line: Dinah shore sings of america Last Line: By my rejection of everything she knows to be true: the beautiful %are blond Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RADIATING NAIVETE, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Poem Source First Line: I am a false philosopher of this Last Line: Knuckled god, nobody's humming bird Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social RADIO YEREVAN, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: Since 1915 %the walled monastery Last Line: His happy child %will inherit all his tears Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RAID ON A CHEYENNE VILLAGE, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Death was lovely Last Line: What could be lovelier than the fire - %oak yellow, orange %red as life? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles REMEMBERING MEXICO, 1969, by BARBARA LAU Poem Source First Line: We were dauntless then Last Line: On the edge %of danger Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles REPORT FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY, by CHARLENE LANGFUR Poem Source First Line: A friend writes, 'we're not talking about any port' Last Line: Play us songs %that will make our feet tap until nothing else matters Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles REPULSE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody cares when I am glad Last Line: Nobody cares when I am sad. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts RESTAURANT, by MAXINE HONG KINGSTON Poem Source First Line: The main cook lies sick on a banquette, and his assistant Last Line: And wonder at the clean diners behind glass in candlelight Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Restaurants RETURN TO MANKILLER FLATS, OKLAHOMA, by MARY CRESCENZO SIMONS Poem Source First Line: Another trail of tears Last Line: And bellies of those spirits walked before Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RETURNED AMERICAN, by KATHLEEN CAIN Poem Source First Line: I stare out of the long windowed house Last Line: And the trees in the rain Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles RIDDLE OF NOAH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want to change your name. You're looking Last Line: In quest of his rightful self while the world looks on Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social ROBERT WILSON, by MICHAEL COLLIER Poem Source First Line: Though he is dead now and his miracle Last Line: Straight in the river and walked deftly toward us %out of the water to his shoes %that lay abandoned Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social RUSSIA 1914; BOLINAS 1988, by GAIL SHAFARMAN Poem Source First Line: Out of my window high as aerie Last Line: Of salt, of fish, of water, %of blood Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SALT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lisa, leona, loretta? %she's sipping a milkshake Last Line: In a wooden barrel Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the house in detroit Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the house in detroit Last Line: With cousin and brother %against the stranger Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social SANTA FE JOURNEY: 4. CHIMAYO, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dog ambles across the empty dusty road Last Line: I am the bear that comes at nightfall %to greet the new moon%soy india, soy mexicana %soy mujer %soy Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTOS AND STONES, by J. DELAYNE BARBER Poem Source First Line: Alma, te quiero que tu no eres ni gringa Last Line: You might have ended elsewhere %than on that bridge, alma, cupping the blue %of the sky in your fath Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pure sunlight is strewn all over the lawn Last Line: I'm on nobody's team Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SEA WORLD, by ERIC BERLIN Poem Source First Line: This lady in her wheel chair has been left Last Line: Move as slow as pennies dropped in a pool Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SEARCH, by NANCY PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Mugsy, what happened to you? Last Line: I breathe out %to pink your flesh Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SEARCHING FOR SCHUPFEN, by DONA LUONGO STEIN Poem Source First Line: It's not just schupfen she's looking for Last Line: She'll tell each child what the flowers smell like %and if there's a name, the name Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SECOND LANGUAGE, by CHRISTINE DUMAINE Poem Source First Line: If I must die young Last Line: Then there is earth I say %lifting hands of louisiana black Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SEED IS THE LIGHT OF THE EARTH; FOR MURIEL RUKEYSER, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ Poem Source First Line: In the absence of light Last Line: As the seed loves the earth enclosing it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SHAME, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: This is the shame of the woman whose hand hides Last Line: And the shame of knowing how cheap such dreams are Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SHE DRIVES, by SOPHIE CABOT BLACK Poem Source First Line: And drives as if she is Last Line: Offered across the table Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SHE-WHO-WATCHES...THE NAMES ARE PRAYER, by ELIZABETH A. WOODY Poem Source First Line: There is celilo %dispossed, the village of neglect Last Line: And everyone dissolved from the fall Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SHORT WAVE IN SHANGHAI, by SIBYL JAMES Poem Source First Line: I've never felt so knifed loose from the world Last Line: World war ii, and the front is somewhere %just past the fading line I hold Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SHOW BIZ PARTIES, by ELIZABETH CLAMAN Poem Source First Line: My dad cracks a joke and two men laugh Last Line: A prick this big. Beautiful Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SILOS, by NANCY PADDOCK Poem Source First Line: All week she watched Last Line: Like black corridors %a woman could get lost in Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SIMPLEST AND THE HARDEST, by MARGARET LLOYD Poem Source First Line: I prepare for you the way I plan Last Line: Allowed to be still as well as the heart %which closes and opens when he departs Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SINGLE SPACE, by NORITA DITTBERNER-JAX Poem Source First Line: The first nights alone, after my husband moved out and the kids Last Line: Or the image %of the woman floating out to sea Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SIX SMALL FIRES, by PAUL JENKINS Poem Source First Line: They hurry through the forest suitcases in hand Last Line: I set just now to witness my shame Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SLAVESHIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded like spoons Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jesus Christ; Marginality, Social; Slavery; Estrangement; Outcasts; Serfs SLAVESHIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded like spoons Last Line: Can this sin live Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jesus Christ; Marginality, Social; Slavery SOLOING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother tells me she dreamed Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts SOLOING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother tells me she dreamed Last Line: Turned back and lost the music Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SONDRA, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You stock the shelves with quick-food - baked beans, canned peas Last Line: Shop waiting for customers while darkness drops around you like a net Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; India SONG, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a song for the speechless Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts SONG, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a song for the speechless Last Line: Who have no voices have one tongue Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones Last Line: I'm just going to school. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; SPACE, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: Monday a boy who cannot lift Last Line: Mother, teacher, aliens, stones Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SPACE BETWEEN, by ANA LUISA ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO Poem Source First Line: I'm a runaway child Last Line: Those of the mother who turns into another Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles STAR-SPANGLED, by MICHELE GLAZER Poem Source First Line: One man won't say anything Last Line: And how so many birds fit inside Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social STORY, by ROBERTO SABALLOS Poem Source First Line: This is the story of maria teresa Last Line: This is the story of maria teresa %this is the story of my people Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons; Farewell; Human Rights STRANGER, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: We were building a fort Last Line: Build a cardboard fort Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SUMMONS, by DAVID RIVARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose I can convince myself this Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts SUMMONS, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose I can convince myself this Last Line: And skittering over one another's backs Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE STATE HOSPITAL, by MARILYN J. BOE Poem Source First Line: I've come to see a stranger Last Line: To guide me, so I won't stay lost %in the dark mystery of my daughter's face Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles SUPER-BRAVE, by TERESA WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: My son's father is kiowa-comanche Last Line: The muscle and pitch of landscape %the wingbone of a man's shoulder Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles TENNESSEE WALTZ, by JAMES HAUG Poem Source First Line: He bows because he is nobody Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#58), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came to the door because he was small or went to some Last Line: This time the dead man will see them in hell. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Dissenters; Exiles; Funerals; Graves; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Fugitives THE CRYPTO-JEWS, by ROBIN BECKER Poet's Biography First Line: This summer, reading the history of the jews of spain Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE EPIPHANY OF THE MAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the voice of the outcast things Last Line: Approach and cleansed are. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Moon; Singing & Singers; Voices; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The THE FLIGHT OF APOLLO, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth was my home, but even there I was a stranger. This mineral crust. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE FLOATING MORMON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That summer she hadn't struggled Last Line: Like parents' front-seat voices. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Mormons; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts THE HOME-RETURNING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis we who live that vagrants are; the dead Last Line: The home-returning! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Grief; Home; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 2. HERMAN THE BASTARD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died alone, herman the bastard Last Line: Ach ja, child, he says, humanity! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Escapes; Relationships; Story-telling; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Fugitives THE INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the body Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE INVOLUNTARY SLACKER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Strong, young and healthy--so the whole world says Last Line: Was ever crucifixion such as mine? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); War; World War I; Estrangement; Outcasts; First World War THE LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States; Estrangement; Outcasts THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Let us go then, you and I Last Line: Till human voices wake us, and we drown. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Apathy; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Modern Man; Paralysis; Estrangement; Outcasts THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race THE MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body is a white thing in the sun, now Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE ONE SECRET THAT HAS CARRIED, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Irene loves a man / who is afraid of sex: she's attended Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE OPEN BOAT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With no place to lay my head Last Line: Afraid, afraid / of a human Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Alienation (social Psychology) THE OUTCAST, by HELEN MCCRORY ARENDELL Poem Text First Line: Born an outcast in a world of slanting sunshine Last Line: Sense that worthwhile life was wasted. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts THE OUTCAST, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul, be your own Last Line: Affront the world. Subject(s): Advice; Alienation (social Psychology); Cruelty; Estrangement; Outcasts THE OUTCASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smile of god was in the air Last Line: While they remain uncomforted. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Beauty; Death; Youth; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The THE PARIAH, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, bramha, bending lowly! Last Line: Look in mercy on repentance! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Legends; Prayer; Rivers; Estrangement; Outcasts THE PARIAH, by ROSE TOOTHAKER MILLILKEN Poem Text First Line: I saw her kneeling in the garden plot Last Line: I somehow knew her soul had found its god. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood THE PAUPER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It dawned a morn to make a heart despair Last Line: More swift, more kind, the flow of thames' dark wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Dogs; Thames (river); Estrangement; Outcasts THE PAUPER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! And not one to heave the pious sigh? Last Line: I pause—and ponder on the days to come. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Graves; Grief; Honor; Poverty; Self; Tears; Estrangement; Outcasts; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE TRAMP, by ROSALIND TRAVERS Poem Text First Line: I have turned my face away from the city Last Line: Away from sight and life; o, take me in! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life THE WORLD; SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is too much with us: late and soon Last Line: Or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn. Variant Title(s): Rather A Pagan;worldliness Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Melancholy; Men; Nature; Paganism & Pagans; Social Protest; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dejection THEN, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: And what of afterlife? I comfort Last Line: Great spirit saying here, in this way %now more toward that Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles THINGS GROW UP OUT OF THE DARK, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE Poem Source First Line: On the wall by the bathtub there clings Last Line: Because something that just might turn out to be beautiful %demanded to be born Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles THIS SPRING, by REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN Poem Source First Line: The dissent of trees over the space of roots Last Line: Something turning sllowly green, and holy Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles THOREAU, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I have no place to go Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Estrangement; Outcasts THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature; Estrangement; Outcasts; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars Last Line: They do not love the earth Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature TO AN UNKNOWN POET, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't the heart to say Last Line: In this bastion of culture. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Estrangement; Outcasts; Feminism TO JERUSALEM, 1990, by MYRA SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: It's a sheroot, that's what Last Line: After school, in my own house. Home Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social TO ONE IN ALIENATION: 1, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I saw you decked to meet Last Line: (poor child!) a half-forgotten point of view Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts TO ONE IN ALIENATION: 2, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay on the stranger's bed Last Line: My lips were sobbing on your name. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts TRAVELING BACK, by SARA HUNTER Poem Source First Line: Traveling for the last time Last Line: The minnesota prairie %and burying ground Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles TSUNEKO-PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS CLINIC, by SUSAN KOLODNY Poem Source First Line: Along the north-south street, glass birds Last Line: The north-south street the square flat stones Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Full Text First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Writer's Conferences And Workshops TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter Last Line: I will take that ancestral one Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women UNDER HER CRIB, by MARCIA PELLETIERE Poem Source First Line: In the yiddish song a goat danced under Last Line: And miril sings, so the goat will dance her girl to sleep Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social UNLOCKING THE DOORS, by JILL BRECKENRIDGE Poem Source First Line: One night, I saw a woman Last Line: If only I could take her %by the arm and not let go Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Violence UNREPENTANT, by BRANDEL FRANCE DE BRAVO Poem Source First Line: What could I do %when I saw his face Last Line: From my young bones Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social UNSPOKEN WORLD, by HELEN RUGGIERI Poem Source First Line: I sometimes think about Last Line: I never learned and %mock in plangorous bleats %poems I never wrote Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles UPSTATE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A knife blade of cold air keeps prying Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts UPSTATE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A knife blade of cold air keeps prying Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social USUAL IMMIGRANT UNCLE POEM, by ASKOLD MELNYCZUK Poem Source First Line: He feared money so much he was known Last Line: Still, that doesn't quite explain the money Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social VIDEO RAIN, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am flown to your good side now Last Line: Sunsets outside quiet silent towns. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Materialism; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction; Tv WALK, by ETHAN GILSDORF Poem Source First Line: Why must that slight man Last Line: This is no world for old men Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poet's Biography First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward Last Line: Hide your daughters, lock your doors Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WEIGHT, by JAY SCHNEIDERS Poem Source First Line: All day long she works to not feel fat. She culls Last Line: We would have it no other way Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WHEN YOU ARE GROWN, AMANDA ROSE, by LAURA BOSS Poem Source Last Line: You're going to have a good life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WHERE WE ARE, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bertha let me run barefoot those weeks Last Line: Yet it's her I see, hunched in the soft spot %of airplane light, embroidering above him, alive Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles WHY SHE HURRIES OUT, THEN HOME, by MARTHA RHODES Poem Source First Line: She's always expecting disaster Last Line: A small gray cloud waiting at the gate Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WITHOUT, by BRUCE BERGER Poem Source First Line: Friends my own age all have kids they can't wait Last Line: The quiet of a dead end Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WITHOUT YOU I AM, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: A lute without strings Last Line: Song without a lure Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles WOMAN WHO WEEPS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the valley, ten children working the fields Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts WOMAN WHO WEEPS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the valley, ten children working the fields Last Line: Village to village and into the smoky huts, %her soul a well, an eye, and open door Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social WOMEN I KNEW, by LOIS ROMA-DEELEY Poem Source First Line: At thirteen I was reading oedipus rex Last Line: Rough landmarks %to star the way %back Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles WORLD-STRANGENESS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange the world about me lies Last Line: Never wholly been at ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts WRITTEN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASYLUM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am: yet what I am none cares or knows Last Line: The grass below -- above the vaulted sky. Variant Title(s): His Last Verses Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Religion; Solitude; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology; Loneliness YOU CALL ME BY OLD NAMES: HOW STRANGE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source Last Line: But no names from another life %a long time back, a long way south Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles YOU TAKE THE FIRST STREET TO THE RIGHT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And your droning isolation from the rest of the world Subject(s): Surrealism; Solitude; Alienation (social Psychology) YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the black trunk I shake out Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the black trunk I shake out Last Line: From me, nail shut my lips. My son %will keep sitting in the last row %among the red words that drin Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations |
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