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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1975

January 1975

 
  • David Bromwich
  • Kenneth Koch
  • James Kugel
  • H. Mallalieu
  • Robert Pinsky
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The Art of Poetry

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An Old People's Home in Southern California

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The Glass Paperweight

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Table of Contents

  • Kenneth Koch
    • The Art of Poetry
  • David Bromwich
    • An Old People's Home in Southern California
    • Lines for Bill Evans
  • Jane Shore
    • The Glass Paperweight
    • Animals That Die in Our Houses
    • An Astronomer's Journal
The Last Week in the Working Life of an Executive on Reaching Retirement Age
  • H. B. Mallalieu
    • Sunday
  • David Wagoner
    • Travelling Light
    • Tracking
    • Walking in a Swamp
    • Breaking Camp
  • James Kugel
    • From The Assemblyman
    • ("A heart-beat strung...")
Comment
  • David Bromwich
    • Rules and Recipes
    • Living Together, by Edgar Bowers
    • Town & Country Matters, by John Hollander
    • Notes from the Land of the Dead and Other Poems, by Thomas Kinsella
    • Selected and New Poems, by Daniel Berrigan
    • To Be of Use, by Marge Piercy
    • Flying Inland, by Kathleen Spivack
    • The Portraits & the Poses, by Edwin Brock
  • John Matthias
    • Sleeper
Contents
  • Robert Pinsky
    • from Essay on Psychiatrists
    • from Essay on Psychiatrists: XIV: Their Speech, Compared with Wisdom and Poetry
CONTRIBUTORS
  • David Bromwich
  • Kenneth Koch
  • James Kugel
  • H. B. Mallalieu
  • John Matthias
  • Robert Pinsky
  • Jane Shore
  • David Wagoner
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