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February 1981

 
  • Margaret Benbow
  • David Bottoms
  • Jared Carter
  • Carl Dennis
  • Brewster Ghiselin
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In a U-Haul North of Damascus

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Hard Freeze

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Clara Hopes for a Lie

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Table of Contents

  • David Bottoms
    • In a U-Haul North of Damascus
    • Rest at the Mercy House
    • Hurricane
    • A Home Buyer Watches the Moon
  • Margaret Benbow
    • Hard Freeze
    • Cooking Lesson
    • Racine 1950
    • The Queen of Everything
  • Carl Dennis
    • Clara Hopes for a Lie
    • The Sweetness of the Law
    • News from Cleveland
  • Lynne Lawner
    • Sorceress
  • Michael Heffernan
    • Ten Past Eleven
  • Jared Carter
    • Ginseng
    • Shaking the Peonies
  • David Ignatow
    • A Cloud Creates
  • Margaret Shafer
    • Photograph: Nina
  • Robley Wilson Jr.
    • A Literary Lesson
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • Hey Sweetie
    • Weave
    • Sympathetic Magic
  • Paul Smyth
    • After the Windstorm
  • Brewster Ghiselin
    • Semblance on Semblance
    • Theft
  • Heather McHugh
    • Remains to Be Seen
    • Mind
    • Elevated
    • Acts of God
    • What the Old Women See
    • Lines
  • Lawrence Raab
    • This Day
    • Being Gone
    • Coming Home
    • Afterwards
    • For You
Comment
  • Vernon Shetley
    • Take But Degree Away
    • The Venetian Vespers, by Anthony Hecht
    • Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, by Galway Kinnell
    • The Morning of the Poem, by James Schuyler
    • Scripts for the Pageant, by James Merrill
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Margaret Benbow
  • David Bottoms
  • Jared Carter
  • Carl Dennis
  • Brewster Ghiselin
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Michael Heffernan
  • David Ignatow
  • Lynne Lawner
  • Heather McHugh
  • Lawrence Raab
  • Margaret Shafer
  • Vernon Shetley
  • Paul Smyth
  • Robley Wilson Jr.
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