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February 1977

 
  • Maureen Bloomfield
  • Philip Dacey
  • Tom Disch
  • Gwen Head
  • William Keens
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Descriptions of the Wilderness

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The Reclaimed

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From the Clearing

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Table of Contents

  • Tom Disch
    • Descriptions of the Wilderness
  • Peter Trower
    • The Reclaimed
  • Philip Dacey
    • From the Clearing
  • Gary Soto
    • The Cellar
  • John Frederick Nims
    • Cardiological
  • Maureen Bloomfield
    • Ghosts
    • Isuprel
    • Morning
    • Near the End of June
    • The Long Ton
  • Gwen Head
    • Not Sleeping
  • John N. Morris
    • The Hours You Keep
    • Halloween
    • Map Problems
    • The Christmas Letter
  • Bibhu Prasad Padhi
    • Sea Breeze
  • Mary Swander
    • Letter
    • In a Dream
    • Song ("And each night...")
  • William Keens
    • How It Feels to Walk on the Moon
    • Skull House, Heart Flower
  • Paul Monette
    • The Wedding Letter
  • Edward R. Robinson
    • Hymn for Soldiers Who Have Lain in the Snow
Comment
  • Robert Holland
    • Six or Seven Fools
    • Grief: Poems and Versions of Poems, by Stephen Berg
    • Riding the Earthboy 40, by James Welch
    • Transplants, by Cynthia Macdonald
    • Inscripts, by Samuel Hazo
    • Separations, by Marilyn Hacker
    • Vital Signs: New and Selected Poems, by David Slavitt
    • [Anton Chekhov]
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • On the Edge of the Estate
    • The New York Head Shop and Museum, by Audre Lorde
    • Cheap, by Ruth Stone
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Maureen Bloomfield
  • Philip Dacey
  • Tom Disch
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Gwen Head
  • Robert Holland
  • William Keens
  • Paul Monette
  • John N. Morris
  • John Frederick Nims
  • Bibhu Prasad Padhi
  • Edward R. Robinson
  • Gary Soto
  • Mary Swander
  • Peter Trower
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