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Subject: BISHOP, ELIZABETH (1911-1979)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CONSULTING AN ELDER POET ON AN ANTI-WAR POEM, by DUANE NIATUM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You said to me that day
Last Line: Live with the dark, %sing into your ruin?
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)


CROWS WHO TRY TO BE CORMORANTS DROWN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snails; peaches; bishop, elizabeth (1911-1979);
Last Line: Seeds inside a tangled nest of membrane, skin
Subject(s): Snails; Peaches; Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)


DICKINSON, BISHOP, AND STEIN, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When stein spoke of roses she said it was
Last Line: Confound our simple grasp
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)


ELIZABETH BISHOP, by LIAM RECTOR            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hated you in my twenties. I thought you
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)


ELIZABETH BISHOP, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hated you in my twenties. I thought you
Last Line: Our hopes and must we %live them too?
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)


ELIZABETH BISHOP COMES TO DINNER, by SUSAN PLINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: First, you should know it's a dream. I've been readinf
Last Line: Hums: elegant passion of cold, loss, iridescence, %(wire, cages, water) says the woman from vassar
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Dreams


FOR ELIZABETH BISHOP, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The child I left your class to have
Last Line: I take the globe and roll it away: where %on it now is someone like you?
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)


MILES DAVIS AND ELIZABETH BISHOP FAKE THE BREAK, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those two dark syllables, begin
Last Line: A tune we've yet to turn to, %its syllables scrubbed in light, its vestibules empty
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Davis, Miles (1926-1991)


THREE DREAMS ABOUT ELIZABETH BISHOP: 1, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It turned out the funeral had been delayed a yar
Last Line: You'd heard why women live longer than men-- %because they wear big diamond rings
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Dreams


THREE DREAMS ABOUT ELIZABETH BISHOP: 2, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is sitting three pews ahead of me
Last Line: Watching us leave, angel or executioner, %not caring which, pursuing her own thoughts
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Dreams


THREE DREAMS ABOUT ELIZABETH BISHOP: 3, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn through a slider to the redwood deck
Last Line: The tree no questions of the flower, one more day no help for all this night
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Dreams


WISHING FISH, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the old, old story the wishing ring
Last Line: Or peace and freedom for us both
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)