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Subject: ANOREXIA NERVOSA
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANOREXIC, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flesh is heretic
Last Line: And sweat and fat and greed
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders; Women


ANOREXIC, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flesh is heretic
Last Line: And sweat and fat and greed
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders; Women


ANOREXIC, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit at my %own table now
Last Line: Almost nothing %at all
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders


FOR A BALLERINA WHO DIED OF ANOREXIA, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her body inscribes an arc like a fine metal
Last Line: By eaters of large expensive dinners
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Ballet


JANE, by T. ALAN BROUGHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last summer she was whippet skinny
Last Line: In invisible currents sanely %drifting around the bend
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders; Sickness; Women


SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 11. ANOREXIA, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My husband looked at other women and I
Last Line: Please him and stop breathing altogether
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Death; Eating Disorders; Marriage


THE STARVELING, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hunger is a stone in her belly
Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Hunger