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Subject: CHINA - RED GUARDS
Matches Found: 9

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FOREVER PARTED: 1. A LABYRINTH OF BYWAYS, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A labyrinth of byways %brought me here
Last Line: Marks worth puzzling over
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Graves


FOREVER PARTED: 2. THE CLOUDS OF GEYUE SHAN, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clouds of geyue shan %are cold
Last Line: Through the dusk %toward the shore
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Graves


FOREVER PARTED: 3. I DON'T HAVE A BROTHER, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't have an older brother
Last Line: I don't know him, %a man, only
Subject(s): China - Red Guards


FOREVER PARTED: 4. YOU LIVED AMONG THE PEAKS, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: You lived among the peaks
Last Line: A game where you could always start all over
Subject(s): China - Red Guards


FOREVER PARTED: 5. DO NOT INTERROGATE THE SUN, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't question the sun
Last Line: For the birds that have left to return
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Graves


FOREVER PARTED: 6. YES, I GO ALSO, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes, I am going as well
Last Line: Beneath the new young green of spring
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Graves


FOREVER PARTED: INTRODUCTION, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: No sign that anyone has been here
Last Line: I say ...
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Graves


RED OCTOPUS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She folds the four corners into the center
Last Line: Inflates the body of the octopus.
Subject(s): China; China - Red Guards


THE ASHES; FOR WILLIAM GASS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This elderly poet, unpublished for five decades
Last Line: Her name known to everyone, safe in her fame.
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Honor; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism