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Subject: ATOMIC BOMB - TESTING
Matches Found: 8

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT THE BOMB TESTING SITE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At noon in the desert a panting lizard
Last Line: The hands gripped hard on the desert.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Testing; Desserts; Nuclear Freeze


LOS ALAMOS NUCLEAR LAB, by CATHARINE P. MAZE    Poem Source                    
First Line: South from the splendor %that is yellowstone
Last Line: Nuclear %lab
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing


NEAR THE DESERT TEST SITES (PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA), by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unlike almost everything
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing


NEVADA NUCLEAR TEST SITE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is no manger anymore
Last Line: And all above in the white storm's eye, %no place to be born, no place to die
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing


POSTCARD OF ATOMIC BOMB TEST, YUCCA FLAT, 1953, by JOHN DUFFRESNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Say there is an explosion so great it shakes off
Last Line: You tell yourself, only a test
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing


SMOKE, by HUGH STEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upon visiting the site of the bravo shot
Last Line: The world was still there %after he had left it behind him
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing


TRYING TO TALK WITH A MAN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in this desert we are testing bombs
Last Line: As if we were testing anything else.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Testing; Men; Nuclear Freeze


WATCHING 'DARK CIRCLE', by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men are willing to observe
Last Line: And ruth landy of the independent documentary group.
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing; Christianity; Motion Pictures, Documentary; Religion; Theology