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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 25TH DANCE - SAYING THINGS ABOUT MAKING GARDENS, by JACKSON MACLOW    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Everyone begins making thunder though taking pigs somewhere
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson
Subject(s): Language Poetry


ABOUT, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is about about, until now a subject reference, point of
Subject(s): Language Poetry


AKA, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lola the elder
Last Line: Made of onionskin
Subject(s): Language Poetry


ALBANY, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If the function of writing is to 'express the world.' my father withheld child
Subject(s): Family Life; Conduct Of Life; Social Commentaries; Language Poetry; Relatives


ALBUM - A RUNTHRU, by CLARK COOLIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I look in that one kind of dwindled. And in this
Subject(s): Language Poetry


AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The art of english poetry, I find
Last Line: With righter verdict, tho' the court's a dream.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; English Language; Language Poetry; Poetry & Poets; Reading


AND THE LOVE OF LAUGHTER, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What he lent himself studious of blind faith
Subject(s): Language Poetry


AND, HINGES, by TED GREENWALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fog hanged over the park, the night cold, and, clean
Subject(s): Language Poetry


ANECDOTE THAT WENT WITH IT, by RAY DIPALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The long reaches of the street
Subject(s): Language Poetry


ANTONVILLE, by PETER SEATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I provide my past with you, the most
Subject(s): Language Poetry


APPROXIMATELY, by DIANE WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meaning a context or vision to confer with this which could be a
Subject(s): Language Poetry


BED, by RAY DIPALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dark o'clock
Subject(s): Language Poetry


BEGINNING TO END, by CARLA HARRYMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I used to be sure but I've forgotten how to count. Would you like
Subject(s): Language Poetry


BINARY, by BOB PERELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two heads are better than one
Subject(s): Language Poetry


BOOK OF THE YELLOW CASTLE, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This can be seen as placing a mirror against the page
Subject(s): Language Poetry


BOOK OF THE YELLOW CASTLE, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This can be seen as placing a mirror against the page
Last Line: These are scalings of a sentence
Subject(s): Language Poetry


BOOK YEARS, by BOB PERELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A religious virgin of unspecific sex
Subject(s): Language Poetry


CALLING, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summers she climbed the hawthorn tree
Last Line: Tongues, the ancient language of poets
Subject(s): Books; Language Poetry; Latin; Poetry And Poets


CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag
Last Line: Which a beacon mesmerically burns with the stars of a translucent imminence
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues


CHINA, by BOB PERELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We live on the third world from the sun. Number three. Nobody tells us
Last Line: But better get used to dreams too
Subject(s): China; Language Poetry


CLAIRVOYANT JOURNAL: CLAIRVOYANTLY WRITTEN - SILENT TEACHER, by HANNAH WEINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hannah this is the best page -- hannah this may
Last Line: Close as you naked could come
Subject(s): Language Poetry


COLLOAM, by PETER T. INMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Morrow every listen
Subject(s): Language Poetry


COMPLETE BALANCING WEATHER MEETS, by TED GREENWALD    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Language Poetry


COMPLETE THOUGHT, by BARRETT WATTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world is complete
Last Line: The violinist arrives at a spot
Subject(s): Language Poetry


CONFIDENCE TRICK, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Intentionally leaderless - recite this alphabet; body never ends
Subject(s): Language Poetry


D E MO O, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a test.
Subject(s): Language Poetry


DEATH OF FLOYD COLLINS, by CLARK COOLIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: These were contemporaries of the mammoth
Subject(s): Language Poetry


DOUBLE, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: So these are the hills of home. Hazy tiers
Subject(s): Language Poetry; Nothingness


DRAWING, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fingers tremble over the belly
Subject(s): Language Poetry


DRAWING ON KREISLER, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He strings the separate nor near you
Subject(s): Language Poetry


ENTERING THE STUDENT'S POEM, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The most beautiful videos / come from reading poetry
Last Line: The blood rushing to her forehead.
Subject(s): Exchange Students; Language Poetry; Poetry Readings; Foreign Exchange Programs


EXTREMITIES, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Going to the desert
Subject(s): Language Poetry


FACADES FOR NORMA COLE, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These ornaments as we pass
Subject(s): Language Poetry


FACADES FOR NORMA COLE, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These ornaments as we pass
Last Line: It came about by itself %during yesterday's storm
Subject(s): Language Poetry


FED DRAPES, by CLARK COOLIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fell far but the barn (came) up & smacked me
Subject(s): Language Poetry


FLOW CHART, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still in the published city but not yet
Last Line: Put up to warm us and as soon expunged, in part of wholly
Subject(s): Language Poetry; Life


FLOW CHART, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still in the published city but not yet
Last Line: Again in earnest, color-coded. It's open: the bridge, that way
Subject(s): Language Poetry


FOR SHE, by CARLA HARRYMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The back of the head resting on the pillow was not wasted. We
Subject(s): Language Poetry


FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 4, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have with attention, dear vicar, repass'd
Last Line: And, speaking or silent, am yours to command,
Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Literature; Language Poetry; Religion; Theology


GIANT OTTERS, by JACKSON MACLOW    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They were a close family of giant otters
Last Line: No demand for clarity %as the eyes are unsealed and the world flows in as light?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson
Subject(s): Language Poetry; Otters


GUARD, SELS., by LYN HEJINIAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Language Poetry


HABIT OF ENERGY, by DIANE WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: An enthusiastic gummed flap, awaiting. Something cloudy in the head
Last Line: Thrill and thrill snatched suddenly an idle habit of energy, a moment
Subject(s): Language Poetry


HADRIAN'S LANE, by RAY DIPALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: What fills the whisper and
Subject(s): Language Poetry


HOUND'S NEST FOR A PARAFEN, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the wind patch
Subject(s): Language Poetry


I DROVE THROUGH THIS OLD WORLD THIS AFTERNOON, by CLARK COOLIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: And it was ancient, quiet, lean and brass
Subject(s): Language Poetry


KETJAK, SELS., by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Revolving door
Last Line: Straight line. Look at that room filled with fleshy babies. We ate them
Subject(s): Language Poetry


LAPSTRAKE, by TED GREENWALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cleat curved you curved the spider
Subject(s): Language Poetry


LATTER DAY, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the particular
Subject(s): Language Poetry


LENS, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I failed to draw a map and you followed it perfectly
Subject(s): Language Poetry


LENS, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I failed to draw a map and you followed it perfectly
Last Line: A few steps should be enough
Subject(s): Language Poetry


LIBRARY IS BURNING, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The library is burning floor by floor
Last Line: It felt the most precise
Subject(s): Language Poetry


LIES, by TED GREENWALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only %avenue
Subject(s): Language Poetry


LOVE SONG NO 38, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Language Poetry


LOVE SONG NO 48, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Language Poetry


LUDICROUS STICK, by TINA DARRAGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: To %clean
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MAINTAINS, SELS., by CLARK COOLIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A nouner
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MANLIUS TO COEYMANS, by CLARK COOLIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: But could it come up into a limestone so correct, teeth
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MARS 6 / FROM LIP SERVICE, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O awkward more vagrant thicker
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MATTER OF FACT, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sanity be applicable something men
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MEASURES, by JACKSON MACLOW    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immoderate use turns to restraint
Last Line: Thou art said %to have a stubborn soul, a quickening in his eye
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MIMESIS, by BARRETT WATTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It thinks, permanent address, states, stands apart, exits
Last Line: Could hide this little man, having no intention to be useful
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MINE: THE ONE THAT ENTERS THE STORIES, SELS., by CLARK COOLIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I will say it, but it keeps leaving me. Here I will parry
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MODE Z, by BARRETT WATTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Could we have those trees cleared out of the way
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MY LIFE, SELS., by LYN HEJINIAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Language Poetry


MY NEPALI WORDS BROKEN, FRAGMENTED, by MOHAN KOIRALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sugar, I write sugar, and paraffin I write
Last Line: Who will buy onions?' %can nepali poems not be written at all
Subject(s): Human Rights; Language Poetry; Pens And Pencils; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers


MY QUARREL WITH LANGUAGE POETRY, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dulsville, as in the after-hours
Last Line: And we went out and ate them
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Friendship; Language Poetry


NAME, SELS., by ALAN DAVIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: If the devices fail pens
Subject(s): Language Poetry


NATIVE, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: How many constants should there be?
Last Line: Redundant but syncopated
Subject(s): Language Poetry


NECROMANCE, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poppy under a young
Last Line: The mermaid's %privacy
Subject(s): Language Poetry


NO 11, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Language Poetry


NO 116, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Language Poetry


NO CHANCE OPERATIONS, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He had a stroke of luck
Subject(s): Language Poetry


NON, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proto-mallie: the flaneur.
Subject(s): Language Poetry


NOT-FRANCE, by CARLA HARRYMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can't stuff myself anymore! (arguments in the form of noble people
Last Line: Bored open to a gash in the middle of the condition that is not-france
Subject(s): Language Poetry


NOTHING, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: That of which many large varieties are found in the major
Subject(s): Language Poetry; Nothingness


OF TIME AND THE LINE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: George burns likes to insist that he always / takes the straight lines
Subject(s): Language Poetry; Popular Culture - United States


OF TIME AND THE LINE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: George burns likes to insist that he always %takes the straight lines
Last Line: An angle but only one lime to make a margarita
Subject(s): Language Poetry; Popular Culture - United States


ON THE CORNER TO OFF THE CORNER, SELS., by TINA DARRAGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Performing military service for the king and bearing a child
Subject(s): Language Poetry


ON THE WAY TO LANGUAGE, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The answer was / the sun, the question
Subject(s): Language Poetry


ON THE WAY TO LANGUAGE, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The answer was %the sun, the question
Last Line: Crossed by the bridge %of frequent sighs
Subject(s): Language Poetry


OUTRIGGER, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is some goggling and conversation coming from the box
Last Line: Its gash, evince its crepe
Subject(s): Language Poetry


PERSON, SELS., by LYN HEJINIAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A person is clinging
Subject(s): Language Poetry


POEM, by RAY DIPALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Face to face and in the face
Subject(s): Language Poetry


PRIMER, by BOB PERELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The surface of the earth displays
Subject(s): Language Poetry


PRIVETS COME INTO SEASON AT HIGH TIDE, by TED GREENWALD    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Language Poetry


PROSPERITY, by DIANE WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mention trusty as a talk of marching, orders
Subject(s): Language Poetry


QUINDECAGON, by RON SILLIMAN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Language Poetry


RANGE, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There cloud moves in front of cloud, and above, suggesting
Subject(s): Language Poetry


RECOMMEND, by JACKSON MACLOW    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Annex no next time or anxiety or brood or bid
Last Line: Though autumn's over and the sly defeat the cunning %runningfarther when leaves greet us in octave s
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson
Subject(s): Language Poetry


RED SHIFT, SELS., by PETER T. INMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silos all by a stillness %nells from bend, a boil allow
Subject(s): Language Poetry


REDO, SELS., by LYN HEJINIAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Language Poetry


RELAYS, by BARRETT WATTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let no one consider the original noise
Subject(s): Language Poetry


RIPE TACK, by RAY DIPALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keel's echo small stagger
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SEDUCED BY ANALOGY, by BOB PERELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: First sentence: her cheap perfume
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SENSES OF RESPONSIBILITY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all these, pieces from which this
Last Line: As a chiseled voice rose above it almost filling the room
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SENSES OF RESPONSIBILITY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all these, pieces from which this
Last Line: Desire projected & recast, to unmake the borders of logic
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SENTENCES MY FATHER USED, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Casts across otherwise unavailable fields
Last Line: Anyway granules, leopards, folding chairs
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SENTENCES MY FATHER USED, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Casts across otherwise unavailable fields
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SEVEN FORBIDDEN WORDS, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who peered from the invisible world
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SEVEN FORBIDDEN WORDS, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who peered from the invisible world
Last Line: And the inhabitants welcomed them
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SHARED SENTENCES, by ALAN DAVIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Towards the latter days of the evening
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SHEDS OF OUR WEBS, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Floating on completely vested time, alacrity
Last Line: All, which heave at having had
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SILENT TEACHERS/REMEMBERED SEQUEL: CLAIR STYLE -- SEEN WORDS, by HANNAH WEINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hannah type your preferences without seeing glad
Last Line: Black children speak
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SITTING UP, STANDNG, TAKING STEPS, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High gray sky. A large wood table with only a green bottle of 'white' rhine
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 2, by SUSAN HOWE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Right or ruth / rent
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SPEECHES AT THE BARRIERS: 2, by SUSAN HOWE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Right or ruth %rent
Last Line: Fugitive dialogue of masterwork
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SPOKE, SELS., by HANNAH WEINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What if the september flowers hurt I was prepared
Subject(s): Language Poetry


START ANYWHERE, by BARRETT WATTEN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Language Poetry


STOVE'S OUT, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an emptiness that fills
Last Line: Unseating a chiffon shock
Subject(s): Language Poetry


STREETS, by BOB PERELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's no history in the past
Subject(s): Language Poetry


SYMBIOSIS, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This poem's about somebody else, not me
Subject(s): Language Poetry


TABLE, by RAY DIPALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not wide but a wing
Subject(s): Language Poetry


TEETHING ON TYPE: 2, SELS., by JULIE PATTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your mammy and your daddy'
Last Line: Sea of troubles where they saw'
Subject(s): Language Poetry


TENDER ARC, by DIANE WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Describe porcelain and I was touching the cool gleam of white
Subject(s): Language Poetry


THE CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues


THE LIBRARY IS BURNING, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The library is burning floor by floor
Subject(s): Language Poetry


THE NOSE OF KIM DARBY'S DOUBLE, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Canyons, paths / dug thru the snow
Subject(s): Driving; Landscape; Language Poetry


THE SHEDS OF OUR WEBS, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Floating on completely vested time, alacrity
Last Line: All, which heave at havind had
Subject(s): Language Poetry


THIN PLACES, by CLARK COOLIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if the sun were winding round a spool, this
Subject(s): Language Poetry


THROUGH WALLS, by MARY RAE ARMANTROUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stomach: lonely
Subject(s): Language Poetry


TROPE MARKET, by JACKSON MACLOW    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the network, in the ruin
Last Line: Fetishistically in nacreous %instantaneity spookily shod
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson
Subject(s): Language Poetry


TWO WORDS, by PETER SEATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's clear, you run wild with my message. All the answers
Subject(s): Language Poetry


UNDER [SELECTION], by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The word as ground, sounded and scratching, etching detail, retching in the throat, crosses a moat o
Subject(s): Language Poetry


VARIOUS MEANINGS, by JACKSON MACLOW    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bottom of a green arras extends a vocabulary
Last Line: In two or three %months the manacles could not have been forgotten. Too much light
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WALL REV, by JACKSON MACLOW    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A line is a crack
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WEEKS, SELS., by HANNAH WEINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We get along wonderfully. It was something that inspired me
Last Line: Coast guard station in italy. We chose the ones we could identify the easiest
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WHAT, by RON SILLIMAN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flowser semon
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WHILE, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were I idiom and
Last Line: Taut that the
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WHILE, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were I idiom and
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WHITE FOOLSCAP: BOOK OF CORDELIA, by SUSAN HOWE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heroine in ass-skin / mouthing o helpful
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WHITE FOOLSCAP: BOOK OF CORDELIA, by SUSAN HOWE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heroine in ass-skin %mouthing o helpful
Last Line: Ifor I %haveaten %it a %way
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WORD I LIKE WHITE PAINT CONSIDERED, by JAMES TERENCE SHERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anonymous days transact to know
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WORD WORLD, by BOB PERELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gentle analogists rock the surface
Subject(s): Language Poetry


WORLD SHIFTS, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Ceaselessly cautioning, veering, %touching speech
Subject(s): Language Poetry; Speech


WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY, SELS., by LYN HEJINIAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time wounds all heals, spills through
Last Line: Hide's felicity depends
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time wounds all heals, spills through
Last Line: Hide's felicity depend
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 1, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard dreams. The moment at which you recognize that your own death lies
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Social Commentaries; Language Poetry; Dead, The


YOU: PART 10, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not yet joining letters into words, read the book aloud from memory.
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 12, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A guide to the sky under full nondisclosure.
Subject(s): Nature; Language Poetry


YOU: PART 18, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: P=h=I=l=a=d=e=l=p=h=I=a. Under the dogwood tree,
Subject(s): Language Poetry; City & Town Life


YOU: PART 19, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moment in which I realize I'm not wearing my glasses. Old stone
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 20, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old stone inn, used by the tories to plot the assault on
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 21, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Smidgens in the glass harass. Moment at which first bird starts to
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 22, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small boy in a seaman's cap reminds me suddenly of my own such
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 23, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun is in the trees behind which a train rushes north to new york.
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 24, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun is in the trees behind which a train rushes north to new york.
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 26, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The breeze sucks the shade into the window's screen.
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 27, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Driving through completely unfamiliar streets, realizing this will be
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 28, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Squirrel at the thistle sock, fat and gray. White bearded affable
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 29, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lightning rolling, popping, snapping all across the sky (the whole
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 30, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The aggression of toddlers or of squirrels. Theory of naming
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 32, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To look up at the impossible brightness would be fatal, tall cloud
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 36, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On his desk, the book of psalms and new testament, printed in
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 37, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the pop foul descends from the heavens into the crowd, hands and
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 38, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the land of the elephants, death transforms the world: a hunter
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 39, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Optical dimultiplexer divides data
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 40, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the forest mist, first dawn light is suspended, diffused, shadowless,
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 8, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Readers of the lost art. Monster with an eye in its mouth (body of a rocket
Subject(s): Language Poetry


YOU: PART 9, by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Language Poetry


ZERO TOLERANCE IS TOO WET FOR ME, by BRUCE ANDREWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'll put incentives back into bleach
Subject(s): Language Poetry


ZYXT [SELECTION], by RON SILLIMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hand without its palm would be nothing
Subject(s): Language Poetry