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Subject: SOUND RECORDINGS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 78'S, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Breakable; heavy; clumsy; the end of a side
Subject(s): Sound Recordings; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography


A PHONOGRAPH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! What his fellow-warblers heard
Last Line: Repeats to them at night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mockingbirds; Sound Recordings; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography


A POEM FOR RECORD PLAYERS, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The scene changes
Last Line: All over town
Subject(s): Sound Recordings; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography


AFTER THE CONCERT, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You become more careful
Last Line: Heavy with hunger
Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Sound Recordings; Symphonies


FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 1., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The red neon sign
Last Line: I can stand more trouble %than any little woman my size
Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings


FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 2., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They tell me to settle down
Last Line: And boy %if I ain't riffin' tonight I hope sumthin'
Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings


FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 3., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out in the smoke of every gig I play
Last Line: Get the hell off my note
Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings


FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 4., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning
Last Line: And I wouldn't be a methodist %to save me
Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings


LEGACY, by JOHN DUFFRESNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The record needle lays down its thread
Last Line: How the needle glides into the deaf %wood, the closing of the groove
Subject(s): Sound Recordings


LISTENING TO HMONG RADIO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman sings intersection
Last Line: Grandfather, look at all %these other people %visiting the
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Radio; Singing And Singers; Sound Recordings; Tourists


OLD GRAMOPHONE RECORDS, by JAMES KIRKUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: On these ancient discs. Smooth-backed, severe
Last Line: And the turntable turns on a ghost of the ghosts of the past
Subject(s): Sound Recordings


POEM FOR RECORD PLAYERS, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The scene changes
Subject(s): Sound Recordings


RECORD 4, by RONALD ERNEST OVERTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eric dolphy
Last Line: Various complications, %mathematical and clear
Subject(s): Dolphy, Eric (1928-1964); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings


RECORDING OF GIUSEPPE DE LUCA (1903), by DICK DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The record's hiss - so dense
Last Line: No beauty can bewitch... %the youth so long now dead
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings


THE VICTOR DOG, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bix to buxtehude to boulez / the little white dog on the victor label
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music & Musicians; Sound Recordings; Trademarks; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography


VICTOR DOG, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bix to buxtehude to boulez %the little white dog on the victor label
Last Line: No honey for the vanquished? Art is art. %the life it asks of us is a dog's life
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings; Trademarks