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| Searching... Subject: WIFE BEATING Matches Found: 15 AFTER THAT, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every story has its lean meat Last Line: I've kissed her fright. Subject(s): Rape; Revenge; Slavery; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating DAN'S WIFE, by KATE TANNATT WOODS Poem Text First Line: Up in early morning light Last Line: Dan's wife. Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating FOR THESE CONDITIONS THERE IS NO ABORTION, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say the tongue is only praxis Last Line: Not hangers and quinine and soda. Subject(s): Abortion; Slavery; Social Problems; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating FURY; FOR MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember this Last Line: For this woman's sake. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Obedience; Women - Abused; Black Heritage; Wife Beating HOME MAINTENANCE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin, she says, is the natural order Last Line: As she raises a glove full of roses. Subject(s): Marriage; Ruins; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating IMAGINARY ANCESTORS: THE GIRAFFE WOMAN OF BURMA, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their voices reach us as if from the shaft Last Line: Lies close to you as air. Help me to hold up my head. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Variant Title(s): The Giraffe Women Of Burma Subject(s): Burma; Women - Abused; Wife Beating JERRY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machine Subject(s): Women - Abused; Marriage; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Wife Beating; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Convicts PAGE 5, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun goes on shining Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating SAFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones Subject(s): Women - Abused; Death; Wife Beating; Dead, The ST. KEVIN AND THE WOMAN OF DERRYBAWN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night her soul is alive Last Line: In the world, she lets them fall. Subject(s): Hunger; Prostitution; Survival; Women - Abused; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Wife Beating THE FARMERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth full of wet bandanna bound Last Line: Down the steps, back to the fields and the reaping. Subject(s): Farm Life; Rape; Women - Abused; Agriculture; Farmers; Wife Beating THE GHOST, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stands a city, - neither large nor small Last Line: That mrs. Mason used a cushion in her chair! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Women - Abused; Ghosts; Wife Beating TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Range / a rest / face off Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating UNAPPRECIATIVE MAN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My husband,' sighed the weeping wife Last Line: "sit upon the floor, and weep and wail forevermore." Subject(s): Marriage; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating WITH NO IMMEDIATE CAUSE, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every 3 minutes a woman is beaten Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating |
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