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Subject: WOMEN - ABUSED
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THAT, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


ALCHEMY OF DAY, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let no girl wait on you on that day when you bind your wild
Last Line: Called for a second time, day rises in words like huge poppies %exploding on their stems
Subject(s): Women - Abused


ARRAIGNMENT OF THE MEN, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Males perverse, schooled to condemn
Last Line: Or the creatures of your use!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz
Subject(s): Guilt; Man-woman Relationships; Women - Abused


AT THE BACK OF PROGRESS ..., by TASLIMA NASRIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fellow who sits in the air-conditioned office
Last Line: Over a couple of green chilis or a handful of cooked rice
Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Women - Abused


BECAUSE: TWO LITANIES. 1. WHY HE BEAT HER, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because the sun was in the sky
Last Line: Because - why else> - he loved her
Subject(s): Women - Abused


BOYFRIEND, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was ugly as a troll and sturdy as a troll. His stubby arms and legs
Last Line: Think of how beautiful we all were once and how we learned to love the beast
Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Women - Abused


BREAD IS BORN, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: How do you make bread talk, this old treasure all wrapped
Last Line: The festival and the frunkenness that morning catches us %in. And daylight straddles the world
Subject(s): Women - Abused


CICADA, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strident %with just one note
Subject(s): Women - Abused


CLOSED ROOM, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who led me here?
Last Line: And let your heart and flesh ripen: %sad mates sliced and lost
Subject(s): Women - Abused


CROWN OF HAPPINESS, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death, become a shewolf
Last Line: The poem on the summit of a high head %crown of happiness
Subject(s): Women - Abused


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


FIVE FRIVOLOUS SONGS: 2. LIP-STICK LIZ, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lip-stick liz was in the biz
Last Line: Oh lip-stick liz!
Subject(s): Murder; Prostitution; Women - Abused


FIVE KIDS SLEPT IN THE CAR ON THE LONG HIGHWAY TO L.A. THEIR MOTHER,, by SESSHU FOSTER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: From the snack bar. It's hotter than shit today
Subject(s): Children; Poverty; Women - Abused


FOR THESE CONDITIONS THERE IS NO ABORTION, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


GREAT FOUNTAINS, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Better not go to these deep woods
Last Line: My old patience %keep intact %eternal solitude water solitude
Subject(s): Women - Abused


HOME CARE, by LORNA CROZIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman from home care is late. She apologizes, but she had a hel
Last Line: So that's a lot of lookin'
Subject(s): Women - Abused


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


I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER, by SHAO YANXIANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thirty-three tribunals of public censure
Last Line: Let's cast a contemptuous look %on those who stratagems all l came to naught
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Human Rights; Women - Abused


IF YOU'RE UNHAPPY, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Close the sea like a bed
Subject(s): Women - Abused


IMAGINARY ANCESTORS: THE GIRAFFE WOMAN OF BURMA, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


INVENTORY, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a hiding place
Last Line: On a table without legs %our own gnawed face - %we threw it right out
Subject(s): Women - Abused


JERRY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


LANDSCAPE, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Happed in my rage
Subject(s): Women - Abused


LIFE IN THE CASTLE, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a castle of forbears
Subject(s): Women - Abused


LIGHTNING, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The whole world caught fire
Subject(s): Women - Abused


LITTLE TOWNS, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I shall give you some little towns
Last Line: I give you some strange, sad little towns, %for your dream
Subject(s): Women - Abused


MORE AND MORE NARROW, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman at her window
Last Line: To damn her veins that freeze each time he breathes %his slow, cold and immobile breath
Subject(s): Women - Abused


MY FATHER SOLD ME TO PAY THE DEBTS, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I lacked beauty, the graces
Last Line: I fell alive into the flames. %still struggling
Subject(s): Household Employees; Pregnancy; Rape; Women - Abused


NAKED GIRLS IN THE FORESTS OF BARBED WIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At times I dressed up as a priestess, and went leaping through air
Last Line: Clear that never had we known how to see ourselves
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Nudity; Pornography; Prostitution; Women - Abused


OFFENDED, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The needy were lined up by order of famine
Last Line: That the cry fire burst from its heart %as its speech
Subject(s): Women - Abused


OUR HANDS IN THE GARDEN, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: We had this idea
Subject(s): Women - Abused


PAGE 5, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun goes on shining
Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating


QUIET MENTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He bullied her for years
Last Line: She didn't win and yet she won
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Solitude; Women - Abused


ROUNDELS, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Foolish men, who accuse woman without reason
Last Line: The world, the flesh and the devil!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women - Abused


SAFE, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones
Subject(s): Women - Abused; Death; Wife Beating; Dead, The


SKINNY GIRL, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a skinny girl
Last Line: And weird and childlike dreams %sir %like green water
Subject(s): Women - Abused


SMALL DEAD GIRL, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A small dead girl
Last Line: Bathes herself blue in moonlight %while her heady perfume rises
Subject(s): Women - Abused


SOMEONE IS BEATING A WOMAN, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her grief-fevered forehead
Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei
Subject(s): Women - Abused


ST. KEVIN AND THE WOMAN OF DERRYBAWN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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


THERE IS CERTAINLY SOMEONE, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Who forgot to close my greedy eyes %and allowed my wasted passion
Subject(s): Women - Abused


TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Range / a rest / face off
Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating


TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Range %a rest %face off
Last Line: I sought the wild animal %salamat jalan
Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused


TOMB OF THE KINGS, by ANNE HEBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My heart is on my fist
Last Line: And turn its punctured eyeballs %toward the morning?
Subject(s): Women - Abused


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every 3 minutes a woman is beaten
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette
Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating