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November 1972

 
  • Stephen Berg
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Kenneth Koch
  • Philip Levine
  • James McAuley
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In the Middle of Life

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Table of Contents

  • Kenneth Koch
    • from From the Art of Love
  • Richard Eberhart
    • Vermont Idyll
    • Plain Song Talk
  • Stephen Berg
    • In the Middle of Life
    • Don't Forget
    • First Cold
  • Philip Levine
    • Death Bearing
    • I've Been Asleep
    • Losing You
  • James J. McAuley
    • Private Devotions
    • In the Gardens
    • World on Sunday
  • Richard Shelton
    • The Fourteenth Anniversary
  • Sandra McPherson
    • Seaweeds
    • Some Engravings of Pierré Joseph Redoute
    • A Little Fire
    • Siberia
  • David Shapiro
    • About This Course
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  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Outside of Amherst
  • Michael Benedikt
    • The Apotheosis of Darkness vs. Bardic Privilege
    • The Book of Nightmares, by Galway Kinnell
    • The Secret Meaning of Things, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    • The Common Shore, by Robert Kelly
    • Poems to Hear and See, by Ian Hamilton Finlay
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  • Stephen Berg
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Kenneth Koch
  • Philip Levine
  • James J. McAuley
  • Sandra McPherson
  • David Shapiro
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • Richard Shelton
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