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October 1973

 
  • Terry Bagg
  • James Bertolino
  • Glover Davis
  • Marilyn Hacker
  • William Heyen
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The Way Down

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Gray Elegy

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Decline

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Table of Contents

The Way Down
  • Jay Macpherson
    • The Way Down
    • Karloff Poem
    • In That Cellar
    • The Well
    • Orion
    • They Return
  • Martha Hollander
    • Gray Elegy
  • Dennis Saleh
    • Decline
  • Marilyn Hacker
    • Under the Arc de Triomphe: October 17
  • James Bertolino
    • Talisman
  • Glover Davis
    • Body Armor
  • Bink Noll
    • Walls
  • William Heyen
    • The Trial beside the River Platte
  • Judith Moffett
    • Glossolalia
Recitatives (No Aria) for a Drowning
  • Terry R. Bagg
    • Preludial Declamations
  • Terry R. Bagg
    • Three Puritans
  • Michael Mott
    • Circe and Her Lovers
    • The Dice
Comment
  • William Pitt Root
    • Anything But Over
    • Campfires of the Resistance: Poetry from the Movement (Ed. by Todd Gitlin)
    • Modern Greek Poetry (Tr. and ed. by Rae Dalven)
    • The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems (Ed. by Robert Bly)
    • Twenty Poems of Tomas Transtromer (Tr. by Robert Bly)
    • Our Poets Speak (Ed. by D. St. John-Parsons)
    • Classic Black African Poems (Ed. by Willard R. Trask)
    • It's a New Day, by Sonia Sanchez
    • Transformations, by Anne Sexton
    • Fat Man Poems, by Peter Wild
    • Not Every Year, by John Haislip
    • Crying in the Cheap Seats, by Bill Tremblay
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  • James Bertolino
  • Glover Davis
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  • William Heyen
  • Martha Hollander
  • Jay Macpherson
  • Judith Moffett
  • Michael Mott
  • Bink Noll
  • William Pitt Root
  • Dennis Saleh
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