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Subject: FUR TRADE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEAVERS, by GERALD VIZENOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Turn the sixth card over at dawn
Last Line: Beaver near the end in the city
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Beavers; Fur Trade; Hunting; Native Americans - History


COUREURS DE BOIS, by DOUGLAS VALENTINE LEPAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thinking of you, I think of the coureurs de bois
Last Line: I watch you vanish in a wood of heroes, %wild hamlet with the features of horatio
Subject(s): Fur Trade


ENTERING THE SOUTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have put on my mother's coat
Last Line: Heavy and dark and alive
Subject(s): African Americans; Animal Rights; Fur Trade; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Furs; South (u.s.)


ENTERING THE SOUTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have put on my mother's coat
Last Line: Heavy and dark and alive
Subject(s): African Americans; Animal Rights; Fur Trade; Southern States


FUR KING, by SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My kingdom by the frozen sea
Subject(s): Fur Trade; Sports; Winter


THE BROWN BEAVER, by FLOSSIE DEANE CRAIG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, man, I think I know just why it is you sigh
Last Line: That many a brave and daring man has died for less!
Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Fur Trade; Furs


THE FUR COAT, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked out in my coat of pride
Last Line: And sneezed a while; and scratched myself.
Subject(s): Fur Trade; Pride; Furs; Self-esteem; Self-respect


TROPHY, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fur coats mean slaughter now
Last Line: Needing the coat to love %me so something would
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Fur Trade