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| Searching... Subject: DISSENTERS Matches Found: 197 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 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 ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO Poem Text 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 ARGUMENT OF A DISSENTER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never to the church will give Last Line: That there is one dissenter less. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Dissenters; Graves; Religion; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology 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'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 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 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 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 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 Text 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'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'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 Text 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'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 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 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 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 Text 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'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 CRITIC, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source 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 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'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 Text 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'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 DIARY, by GERALD STERN Poem Source 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 FLIGHT OF APOLLO, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source 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 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 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 GOING OUT FOR CIGARETTES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text 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'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 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'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 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 HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY Poem Text 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'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 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 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 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 Text 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'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 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'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 INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 LITTLE CITIZEN, LITTLE SURVIVOR, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text 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 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 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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 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 MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source 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 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 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 Text 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'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 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 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 OLD FOLSOM PRISON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text 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'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 Text 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'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 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'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 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 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 Text 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'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 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 POEM, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Source 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 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 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 Text 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'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 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 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 RIDDLE OF NOAH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source 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 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 Text 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'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 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 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-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 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 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 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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 SONG, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text 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'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 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 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 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'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'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 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'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 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 FLIGHT OF APOLLO, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation 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 INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the body Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem 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 MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text 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 Text 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 THOREAU, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text 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 TO AN UNKNOWN POET, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text 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 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 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 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 UPSTATE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text 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'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 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 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 WOMAN WHO WEEPS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text 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'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 |
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