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Subject: NIXON, RICHARD (1913-1996)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABERGAVENNY, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: This was the home of holy men
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


AFTER DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE: A PHOTOGRAPH, by MARY BELLE CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mr. Nixon is playing his spinet
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); White House (washington, D.c.)


ART OF LOVE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I learned in my mother's kitchen, at her hands
Last Line: Satisfied, I'll let you lay hands on me
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


AS BARBARA CARTLAND WOULD SAY, I LOVE YOU, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: O worldly one, my bodice is not heaving
Last Line: To say enough to care the very best
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


AS MY HUSBAND TRANSLATES FROM THE POLISH, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unselfconscious as a statue, %he sits heavily on a thin green chair
Last Line: In love or in despair %at the hour %of someone else's death
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


BABEL, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scum from the pickle crock, dumplings with plum
Last Line: And sang about a silver horse with wings
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


BEYOND THE VELVET CURTAIN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monthly I have come to these sands, monthly I have braved the %surge
Last Line: Pilot this empty gondola, this navigable slipper, beyond the slap, the %first lungswell and shriek
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


BRESLAU, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see everything in layers: %trees, cities, species, the sexuality
Last Line: As the lamps snuff out, the walls %crumble in, the canaries %leave of singing
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


BRIDE OF TRICKY D., by RACHEL LODEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And the rest is taps, or reveille. Maybe
Last Line: He'll say, 'but it would be wrong.'
Subject(s): Death; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996)


CHECKERS, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: O my master of the armchair and the ottoman
Last Line: Narrow trenches of leather lined with ripe, damp fur
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


CITOYEN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh missionary, oh honey,' I say
Last Line: We begin the slow march on the capital, we beat %the slow sheep home
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


COME AS YOU ARE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: She drives all night through the bovine dark
Last Line: Abundance? How, later, to fit back in the box?
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


CUBA LIBRE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The plywood bar in the basement %glistened with silverfish
Last Line: The primer of mother's muted heels %popping and sparking up above
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


CURRICULUM VITA, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Antoni szymonik, born 1983, subject of franz-joseph
Last Line: 1974, died of a stroke beside a statue of the blessed virgin
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


DROUGHT, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the grass burned, after our great
Last Line: In your hair, death %and the banishment of death, wave %after wave
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


DURING THE SORTIES OVER BAGHDAD, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman works with lace panels
Last Line: A city that has never been bombed
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


DUST DEVILS, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today, on the thirtieth of the drought
Last Line: And dust devils, hot wind and sod, the gray scale %between black and white?
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


EINSTEIN'S TRAIN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years I will track you, tunnel
Last Line: And let lightning strike you twice
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


EXILE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: O marble aunts and grandparents %planted in this alien soil
Last Line: For lilies in my arms and growing hair
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


FLOWER CAST, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A flower cast has taken place for three days
Last Line: Films in new york and a worldwide gold sealer %summed up that's one small step for %man one small st
Subject(s): News; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States; Radio


FROST HEAVES, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the winter retches so hard the roads contort
Last Line: Frost heaves when I touch myself %pretending to touch her
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


GIN, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time I drank gin
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse


GIN, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time I drank gin
Last Line: Of dwight eisenhower, who brought us %richard nixon with wife and dog. %any wonder we were trying gi
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996)


GREGOR SAMSA SYNDROME, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: My nixon began when I did
Last Line: I once copied to quote myself %into my wife's love
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Political Campaigns; Presidents, United States


HELLO NEIL AND BUZZ FROM OMAHA, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hello neil and buzz from omaha and the church camp
Last Line: Thirty-four hours all the utilities and tvs can %start anytime you want
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


HERMANN KAFKA'S DINNERTIME PANTOUM, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When father says it's time, it's time!
Last Line: And when father says it's time, it's time!
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


HOME MOVIE, 1960, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who were you before you could speak?
Last Line: I wish I could cover you with language
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


ILLINOIS, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shaped like lincoln's face, veined red and blue
Last Line: And cottonmouth, the submerged willow root %I could wreck my life on
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


KATHE KOLLWITZ, AFTER A VISIT TO THE NEW RUSSIA, 1927, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My model sleeps. But no matter
Last Line: Even there hunger rattles on %like an empty train
Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


LAST OF BEBE, by RACHEL LODEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who traded recipes with haldeman?
Last Line: With memories, singing like an offshore %banker sleep, mi camarada
Subject(s): Friendship; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Rebozo, Charles Gregory (bebe) (1912-98); White House (washington, D.c.)


LAWRENCE WELK, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I loved my gram, but couldn't stand her show
Last Line: Would polka her around the universe
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


LEARNING TO DRAW, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leonardo! I'm learning to see %in fractions: the body in eighths
Last Line: In their saucers, and my frogs any moment %will leap off the page
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


LOSING LANGUAGE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's pan zbyszek's funeral, and I'm running late
Last Line: I will neither fidget nor flinch
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


MAKING PIEROGI, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dough is not turning out. It refuses
Last Line: And float in the salty water, and rescue them %again and again
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


MASTERY, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: At 22, I snuck up on rembrandt's pose
Last Line: Of what was lost: a rescue or refuge
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


MISS VICTORY (1895), by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can't fool us, miss victory, queening it
Last Line: Your left hand flaming, the other hugging the hilt
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


NIXON, by AMIRI BARAKA            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With his pointed head
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996)


NIXON, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With his pointed head
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996)


NIXON AND NIKITA IN THE KITCHEN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the threshold of the model american home
Last Line: To tell the truth, and the young are rarely capable of it
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


NIXON IN HELL, by GARY KEENAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I'd known I was headed for brimstone and boredom
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996)


NIXON NAMES ELVIS HONORARY FEDERAL NARCOTICS AGENT..., by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The king is thinking tricia's got nice tits
Last Line: It means, sir, taking care of business with a flash'
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presley, Elvis (1937-1977)


NIXON ON THE PLEASURES OF UNDRESSING A WOMAN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: With us, it is easy: a tug on the tie, the ubiquitous zipper
Last Line: But for silence, longing, a residue of perfume
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


NIXON'S BRIEFCASE BY JOSEPH CORNELL, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nixon rubs his palm across the large pores
Last Line: He feels like a pharaoh at the mouth of his own tomb
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


NIXON'S NIGHTMARE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: B-52s with heavy payloads whinny %over the reflecting pools at versailles
Last Line: Untwits the pin of a grenade. Serpents %of reel-to-reel shoot through the pool
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


ON THE DAY OF NIXON'S FUNERAL, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's time to put the aside the old resentments; lies
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Death; Dead, The


PAT NIXON SPEAKS OF HER HUSBAND'S SNORING, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: For all I know his communiques %animate the gray pacific or ascend
Last Line: Cliffs of rock along the coast, and the ocean %with its everlasting in and out
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


PHILOSOPHER NIXON AT FRISBEE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It began as a game with his grandkids, an absurd pursuit
Last Line: His body not the aimless arrow %but the tightened bow
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


POET'S WIFE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: She curses the half moon hanging
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


POLISH JOKES, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the deep freeze of the cold war
Last Line: For feigning detente while dreaming of exile
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


PRAIRIE SCHOONER, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: That house at tenth & grant
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old upright piano, she says, I am home
Last Line: Canada has returned. Stroke the quilted %nap of her feathers, and take good aim
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


REVISING SYLVIA, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eight-millimeter woman, phosphoric semaphore
Last Line: Who hovers, wavers %but refuses to descend
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


RICHARD NIXON: NOV/69, by ELI W. MANDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is a poem called I have a plan
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996)


SAINT ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF HUNGARY, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nights, under the tasseled brocade of my canopy
Last Line: Feast. No man can live without it
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


SAPPHIC SONNETS, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why do I try to glid you in this form?
Last Line: While wishing someone would swing you, at last
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


SHORTWAVE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: From moscow, london, and tripoli %shortwaves winged through the steel v
Last Line: Attending to concerts, quiz shows, propaganda, war
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


SPIDER ELECTRIC, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was advent. You wanted to be a shepherd
Last Line: The smoke, you are patient all right, twirling the skillet %for hours, till the stickiness %is right
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


SYNECDOCHE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Curious the mute relics you left me
Last Line: Without consuming for freezing the kingdom?
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


TO WARSAW, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your kino moscow gleams like a pink dish
Last Line: I have few words, but will tell of it
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PUBLIC LIFE, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The president, my father, and myself
Last Line: And record the president's words. He paces his room %insisting on his innocence and our guilt
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996)


TUREEN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the lid-hole cut for a ladle %I smell onions and broccoli %breathing
Last Line: I hold you with a loose grip, one-handed, %to keep from slipping
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


WATCHING MY FATHER PRAY, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are no longer in europe, in his father's provincial town
Last Line: All the hours on our knees, praying for the wrong thing
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


WCW ON MARSDEN HARTLEY, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's a querulous bit of baggage
Last Line: And you would have made %the most charming whore %in new york
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


WEDDING SONG, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do what I can for hanka, daughter
Last Line: The pale eagle of poland sweeping off its crest, %our stamping and whirring heard %as far as the sil
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


WHAT MY FATHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT SEX, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: That my mother and he never 'had relations'
Last Line: Of the piano, for he had always wanted to play
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


WRONG SONNET OF THE POLITICAL RIGHT AND LEFT, by NORMAN DUBIE                    Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Politics And Politicians; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996)