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| Searching... Subject: SOCIAL COMMENTARIES Matches Found: 109 A DISUSED SHED IN CO. WEXFORD, by DEREK MAHON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even now there are places where a thought might grow Subject(s): Social Commentaries A FABLE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Securely sunning in a forest glade Subject(s): Social Commentaries A POEM FOR THE CRUEL MAJORITY, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cruel majority emerges! Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Democracy; Caste A REPORT FROM THE BORDER, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wars in peacetime don't behave like wars Last Line: "drowned crops, charred hopes, fear, stupor, prayer. Subject(s): Politics & Politicians; Social Commentaries ADVENT 1966, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because in vietnam the vision of a burning babe Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); Advent; War Atrocities; Social Commentaries ALBANY, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Text 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 ALIENS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chatter of little people Subject(s): Social Commentaries ALL RIGHT, YOU HAVE NO MONEY, YOU'VE GIVEN IT UP, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): United States; Working Class; Boredom; Social Commentaries AN AMERICAN POEM, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in boston in Subject(s): Self; Gays & Lesbians; Ancestors & Ancestry; Boston; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Heritage; Heredity; Caste AN INTERIM, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the war drags on, always worse Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); War Atrocities; Social Commentaries AT THE GRAVE OF MY GUARDIAN ANGEL: ST. LOUIS CEMETERY, NEW ORLEANS, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At sixteen I was so vulnerable to every influence Subject(s): Nothingness; Social Commentaries; Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876); Oswald, Lee Harvey (1939-1963); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Nihilism; Voids AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NOVEMBER 15, 1969, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Brown gas-fog, white Subject(s): Social Commentaries AUTOBIOGRAPHY: NEW YORK, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not to be bought for a penny Last Line: And along the streets of los angeles Subject(s): New York City; Social Commentaries BETTER THAN HEAVEN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many set-asides, you say, intemperate Last Line: Leads, possible meaning Subject(s): Social Commentaries BEYOND WORDS, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you bomb / the ind Subject(s): Music & Musicians; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States BROKEN SONNET, by JOHN YAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world weeps. There are no tears Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Commentaries BUSTED BOY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Social Commentaries; United States - Race Relations; Police CADILLAC MOON, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Basquiat, Jean-michel (1960-1988); Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries CANTO 3, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology; Social Commentaries; Murder CANTO 36, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady asks me Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Social Commentaries; Language; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary CHEESE, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And those who live on government cheese and carry it Subject(s): Welfare; Social Commentaries CIVILIZATION, by GARY SYNDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those are the people who do complicated things. Subject(s): Social Commentaries CLOUDS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn. First light tearing Subject(s): Clouds; Social Commentaries COLOSSUS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's awesome to have straddled a century Last Line: To crumble into ruins with it Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Social Commentaries DAU AL SET, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marking faces smeared with ash Last Line: That wide room called the world Subject(s): Social Commentaries DEAD MEAT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seismic cracks spreading across plaster bison chained Last Line: Inside a spine-cracked diary the pages rabbit-eared Subject(s): Social Commentaries DEAD POETS OF QUEER POEMS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Commencement exercises inhibited Subject(s): Social Commentaries DEMOCRACY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; Winter DOCTOR FROLIC, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Physicians; Doctors DOSSIER OF IRRETRIEVABLES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at bar 6 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DREAMER, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are few probabilities through Last Line: That it jogs Subject(s): Dreams; Sea Voyages; Slavery; Faith; Christianity; Social Commentaries DURING THE WAR, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When my brother came home from war Subject(s): War; Grief; Social Commentaries; Sorrow; Sadness ECHO & ELIXIR 2, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cairo’s taxi drivers speak to me in english Last Line: The wicked binds, the cataclysmic fares Subject(s): Language; Cairo; Taxis; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Enemies; Words; Vocabulary EL FRUTO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The apple wasn't our true origin Last Line: It was king-executive, demi-god of the new business Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Creation EVE OF ST. AGONY OR THE MIDDLECLASS WAS SITTING ON ITS FAT, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man-dirt and stomachs that the sea unloads; rockets Subject(s): Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Caste FEMALE MASCULINITY, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two guys sucking each other in the steam room Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Gays & Lesbians; Relationships; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FREELY ESPOUSING, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A commingling sky Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Genial poets, pink-faced Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Women; Poetry & Poets GRASS AND WATER, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The geese have their heaven and I have mine, Subject(s): Geese; Social Commentaries HAPPY AS THE DAY IS LONG, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take the long walk up the staircase to my secret room. Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Wit & Humor HELLO, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hello, drug addict, can you become a poem of perfect form? Last Line: Your napalmed brain and drug-addicted body Subject(s): Literary Prizes; Poetry & Poets; Social Commentaries; War; Drugs & Drug Abuse HIS LEGACY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But a voice blowing away the dust Last Line: Voice in which no recordings survived Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Social Commentaries HOTEL FRANCOIS 1ER, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a very little while and they had gone in front of it. It was that they had liked it Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Friendship; Language; City & Town Life; Art & Artists; Social Commentaries; Male-female Relations; Words; Vocabulary I AM AN ATHEIST WHO SAYS HIS PRAYERS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Atheism; Social Commentaries I AM THE PRESIDENT OF REGULATION, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the giant goliath, Subject(s): Social Commentaries IN ORDER TO, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apply for the position (I've forgotten now for what) I had Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Commentaries JERSEY TRANSIT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That black woman with the extraordinary earrings Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Social Commentaries; Railways; Trains KILLS BUGS DEAD, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kills bugs dead. Redundancy is syntactical overkill. Subject(s): Extermination & Exterminators; Social Commentaries KONTRANIKI, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cave life in the hebron hills Last Line: From here to eternity Subject(s): War; Social Commentaries LAND, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swear by the olive in the godf-kissed land Last Line: Are shahid’s arms broken, o promised land? Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Islam LESSONS FROM TELEVISION (SELECTION), by SUSAN STEWART Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You must laugh at yourself, laugh and laugh. Subject(s): Television; Social Commentaries; Tv LET US HAVE MADNESS OPENLY, O MEN, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: A rotting barge of lean huge graves Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Disappointment LIFE AT WAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The disasters numb within us Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975); War Atrocities; Social Commentaries LINCOLN, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Manic-depressive lincoln, national hero! Subject(s): American Civil War; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) LINES WRITTEN NEAR SAN FRANCISCO, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wake and feel the city trembling. Subject(s): Caruso, Enrico (1873-1921); United States; Social Commentaries; America MAJESTY, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Social Commentaries MUG SHOTS, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In business you have to know people . . . Try selling Subject(s): Social Commentaries MY GENERATION READING THE NEWSPAPERS, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We must be slow and delicate; return Subject(s): Social Commentaries NAMES, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A few names tell it all Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Names; Social Commentaries NECROPOLIS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even in death they prosper; even in the death Subject(s): Wealth; Poverty; Death; Social Commentaries; Riches; Fortunes; Dead, The NIAGARA, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Driving westward near niagara, that transfiguring of the waters, Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Nature; Earth; Social Commentaries; World NOW AND THEN, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the valley Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Social Commentaries; Human Behavior; Social Classes; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caste ON A TRAILWAYS BUS A MAN WHO HOLDS HIS HEAD STRAGELY SPEAKS TO THE SEAT NEXT TO HIM, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought a book to make the time pass Subject(s): Buses; Human Behavior; Books; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading OTHERWISE ELSEWHERE, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere over there the lawyer with a yellowish leaf in his hair; Subject(s): Human Behavior; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEM ABOUT PEOPLE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The jaunty crop-haired graying Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Relationships; Jews; Judaism POEM OF DISCONNECTED PARTS, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At robben island the political prisoners studied. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Racism; Social Commentaries; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry PRESENT TENSE, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now that my ears are connected to a random answer machine, Subject(s): Social Commentaries SEVENTH STREET, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts Subject(s): African Americans; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; United States - Prohibition (1919-1933); Negroes; American Blacks SIXTH PSALM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For america is a lady rocking on a porch in an unpainted house Last Line: Activity. / for america only your dolls are cheerful Subject(s): United States; Social Commentaries STRIPPED CAR, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Social Commentaries STUDY IN A LATE SUBWAY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon revovles outside; possibly black air Subject(s): Social Commentaries TENDER BUTTONS: A CHAIR, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A widow in a wise veil and more garments shows that shadows are even Subject(s): Social Commentaries TENDER BUTTONS: A LIGHT IN THE MOON, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A light in the moon the only light is on sunday. What was the sensible decision Subject(s): Social Commentaries THE AMERICAN PARABLE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good boys are we to have retrieved Last Line: Each time heavier with gold / and less wieldly Subject(s): United States; Greed; Social Commentaries THE ASS FESTIVAL, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pink cum dribbles out my anus Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE BEASTS, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh mollusk morning puts a foot Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): City & Town Life; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Immigrants; Caste; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE BECKETT KIT, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I finally found a way of using the tree Last Line: How can you go on saying you’re happy? Subject(s): Toys; Happiness; Social Commentaries THE BITTER TEARS OF ALEXANDER SCRIABIN, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A novel begins here Subject(s): Social Commentaries THE BLOOMINGFOODS PROMISE, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the ugly man who buys bell peppers Subject(s): Food & Eating; Social Commentaries THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Click the grief castanets. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Skin Condition; Grandparents; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE BUTCHER SHOP, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A disciplined institution Last Line: Before a block of wood, / a kind of altar Subject(s): Butchers; Social Commentaries THE CHILDREN, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In three directions Subject(s): Social Commentaries THE LETTER ON THE BRINK OF WAR, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dears, / you're already painting the porch? You ladies are up early Last Line: And dare we talk about the future? / love, eddie Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Letters; Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; United States THE MIDNIGHT CLUB, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gifted have told us for years that they want to be loved Subject(s): Social Commentaries THE NAME, by GERALD STERN Poem Text 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 NEGATIVE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man hauling coal in the street is stilled forever. Last Line: Lovers in the summer palace park. Subject(s): Time; Social Commentaries THE OLD CHIMAERAS, OLD RECEIPTS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: By my old master's feet Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Communism; Social Commentaries THE OLD WORLD MOANS AND TOPES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Or tell us what they are Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Social Commentaries THE OTHER STARS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tripartite schemes were all very well Subject(s): Life Choices; Social Commentaries; Relationships THE OTHERS, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They slept and ate like us. Subject(s): War; Social Commentaries THE OVEN LOVES THE TV SET, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stuck on the fridge, our favorite pin-up girl Subject(s): Social Commentaries THE POOR, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the mountains I wandered and saw blue haze Subject(s): Thought; Poverty; Social Commentaries; Thinking THE REFINERY, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thirsty and languorous after their long black sleep Subject(s): Oil Fields; Social Commentaries THE SUROUNDED, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They escape before, but their shadows walk behind Subject(s): Social Commentaries THE TRAGIC CONDITION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your tired, your poor Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States THE UNINVITED, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We did not care muchly who, in the murder Subject(s): Murder; Social Commentaries THE WASTE CARPET, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No day is right for the apocalypse, Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Social Commentaries THE WEALTH OF THE DESTITUTE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How gray and hard the brown feet of the wretched of the earth. Subject(s): Poverty; Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Caste THINK OF THE SOUL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: See, hear, and am silent Subject(s): Men; Women; Soul; Racism; Past; Death; Social Commentaries; Grief; Conduct Of Life TO ELSIE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The pure products of america Subject(s): United States; Social Commentaries; America TO MY COUNTRY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've never praised you in my poems Last Line: And blame the poor for being poor Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Social Commentaries TUNING, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Social Commentaries UP FROM SLOBBERY, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans; Language; Social Commentaries; Negroes; American Blacks; Words; Vocabulary WANDERING AT MORN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Destin'd to fill the world Subject(s): Social Commentaries WE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We ought to drop the bomb at once before Subject(s): Cold War; United States; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; America; Caste WE SHOULD ALL LIKE ROCKS IN A FLAT FIELD, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the caves today Subject(s): Social Commentaries WEALTH OF NATIONS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tired of the gawking. Conspicuous Last Line: Putting out after the khrushchev thaw– Subject(s): Modern Life; Social Commentaries WHO KILLED THE PLAN?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I killed the plan Subject(s): Social Commentaries YOU: PART 1, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Text 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 |
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