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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1976

October 1976

 
  • Dick Allen
  • Tom Disch
  • Kathryn Hellerstein
  • Rika Lesser
  • Charles Martin
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That Maple

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Captain Blood Returns

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Illusion-Making Craft

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Table of Contents

  • Grace Schulman
    • That Maple
    • Tree of Life
  • Estill Pollock
    • Captain Blood Returns
  • Kathryn Hellerstein
    • Illusion-Making Craft
  • Dick Allen
    • The Afterlife
    • Poem for My 36th Birthday
  • Alex Stevens
    • Trust This Recipe
  • Arthur Oberg
    • Fable for the Sad and the Beautiful
    • Distraction after a Night Storm
    • Obstructed View of the Arbitrary and the Profane
    • Bittersweet
    • Finding a Language for Beatrice
  • Ronald Wallace
    • Pastoral
  • Les Taylor
    • The Forest for the Trees
  • Ann Stanford
    • The Spy
    • The Chase
    • The Turn
    • After Exile
    • Listening to Color
  • Tom Disch
    • The Color Blue
  • Paul Petrie
    • The Explorers
  • Charles Martin
    • Calvus in Ruins
  • Rika Lesser
    • Translation
Comment
  • Judith Moffett
    • The Other World and the Real
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  • Dick Allen
  • Tom Disch
  • Kathryn Hellerstein
  • Rika Lesser
  • Charles Martin
  • Judith Moffett
  • Arthur Oberg
  • Paul Petrie
  • Estill Pollock
  • Grace Schulman
  • Ann Stanford
  • Alex Stevens
  • Les Taylor
  • Ronald Wallace
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