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Subject: GINSBERG, ALLEN (1926-1997)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HUNDRED MULE DEER IN THE BACK YARD; I.M. ALLEN GINSBERG, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleepwalkers' chess condensare ad absurdum
Last Line: I want to remember him a little longer
Subject(s): Deer; Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


ALLEN GINSBERG, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once allen ginsberg stopped to pee at a bookstore in new jersey
Last Line: Unzipped his pants, and peed
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


ALLEN GINSBERG, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once allen ginsberg stopped to pee at a bookstore in new jersey
Last Line: So proud she told this story %pointing to the spot outside, as if %still flowed that holy stream
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


ALLEN GINSBERG DYING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Allen ginsberg is dying / it's in all the papers
Last Line: They whisper / allen
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


ALLEN GINSBERG DYING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Allen ginsberg is dying %it's in all the papers
Last Line: Allen %they whisper %allen
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


BOWLING GREEN, SEWING MACHINE!, by PEGGY LANDSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the street and under the stars
Last Line: This pint of coffee ice cream melts
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


BRIDAL SONG, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Amid a host of metaphors
Last Line: Our different flesh and bone
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Wedding Song


ELEGY FOR ALLEN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was a break
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


INDIAN APRIL, by MEENA ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Allen ginsburg on a spring day you stopped
Last Line: I hear you call: govinda, aaou, aoou!
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); India; Family Life; Poetry & Poets


INDIAN APRIL: 1, by MEENA ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Allen ginsburg on a spring day you stopped
Last Line: Into terrible light where the ganga pours
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


INDIAN APRIL: 2, by MEENA ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was born at the ganga's edge
Last Line: Teach us to clear our throats
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


INDIAN APRIL: 3, by MEENA ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kaddish, kaddish I hear you cry
Last Line: From the misericordia of attachment?
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


INDIAN APRIL: 4, by MEENA ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Holy the cord of death, the sensual palaces
Last Line: I hear you call: 'govinda, aaou, aoou!'
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


ONE INCH OF LOVE IS AN INCH OF ASHES, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Allen ginsberg came to see me in a dream
Last Line: You know what the chinese poet said, anne, / 'one inch of love is an inch of ashes'
Subject(s): Love – Complaints; Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


PIED PIPER (1926-1997), by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Allen ginsberg is dead
Last Line: Innovator, respected, %avant-garde. %mourned
Subject(s): Death; Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Mourning


THE NAME, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Having outlived allen I am the one who
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Social Commentaries


THE VILLAGE, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hate greenwich village like vachel lindsay said
Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


TO ALLEN GINSBERG, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Allen, you good man, great poet of the murderous century,
Last Line: For lack of a better term letting it pass as the practice of%composing verses
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


TWO SCENES FROM THE LETERARY SCENE & A LETTER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When ginsberg (always tolerant and kindhearted)
Last Line: Great poet, good man, adept of happy-making laughter, %I salute you
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Poetry And Poets


UPON THE DEATH OF ALLEN GINSBERG, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the capital
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER...', by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bitter twitter
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Memory


WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER...', by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bitter twitter
Last Line: Old friends die. %goodbye!
Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Memory