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Subject: PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DESIRE, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not turner's venice
Last Line: Abating in the huge green hesitations of the trees
Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Urban Life


DESIRE, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not turner's venice
Last Line: The rare acres of stars, the thin wind %abating in the huge green hesitations of the trees
Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


EASTER IN PITTSBURGH, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even on easter sunday
Last Line: The bathroom mirror and %had to learn a long psalm
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


JOHN BRASHEAR, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still another pittsburgher, still another life, still another way of life
Last Line: And there is handel's aria, 'when thou appearest, all will be restored to me!'
Subject(s): Brashear, John Alfred (1840-1920); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


LINES WRITEN IN A PITTSBURGH SKYSCRAPER, by DIANE ACKERMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: It has taken me three years
Last Line: Carnal, mute, wholly flowing, %unburdened toward a distant shore
Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


PITTSBURGH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And my beautiful daughter
Last Line: Pain, in the love of daughter and father.
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Children; Grief; Love; Parents; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood


PITTSBURGH, by TERRANCE J. LAPPIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Surly drunk
Last Line: Keep the silence
Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


PITTSBURGH, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's fifteen years since pittsburgh town
Last Line: They'll realize their dream!
Subject(s): Baseball; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Sports; Victory


PITTSBURGH IS', by TERRANCE HAYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A large woman gabbing at the bus stop.
Last Line: My stout, blabbering metaphor
Subject(s): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


RUMORED CONVERSATION WITH ONESELF CONTINUES IN PITTSBURGH, by DIANE ACKERMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: And also a city with quiet pockets
Last Line: Across from a city whose incandescence %obscures even the most frantic stars
Subject(s): Cities; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


SEARCHING FOR PITTSBURGH, by JACK GILBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fox pushes softly, blindly through me at night,
Subject(s): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: PITTSBURGH, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A factory girl with smudges on her cheek
Last Line: She cannot wholly free her hands of grime.
Subject(s): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


STEPHEN FOSTER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another pittsburgher, another life, another way of life
Last Line: Oft made hyperion ache
Subject(s): Foster, Stephen Collins (1826-1864); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


THE BRIDGE (PITTSBURGH), by BENNETT WEAVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dull thunders troubled the great hills / and moaning lay upon the land
Last Line: Gathered and sank within my blood.
Subject(s): Lightning; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Rivers; Thunder; Lightning Rods