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September 1978

 
  • Edward O'Shea
  • Laurel Blossom
  • Stephen Gibson
  • Andrew Grossbardt
  • Conrad Hilberry
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The Gesture

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From the Scraps of Blank Paper

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For My Father

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Table of Contents

  • Elizabeth Libbey
    • The Gesture
    • Love Poem
    • Déjà Vu
    • Girl Sitting Alone in Her Room
    • Putting Things By
  • Gary Shabo
    • From the Scraps of Blank Paper
  • Philip Schultz
    • For My Father
    • Savage Feelings
    • Darwin, Tortoises, Galapagos Archipelago & New Hampshire
  • Jeanne Murray Walker
    • The B Movie
    • There Conveys Meaning
    • Ariadne
  • Stephen M. Gibson
    • The Peat-Cutters
  • Laurel Blossom
    • Leaving
    • Next Time
    • Skate
    • Doomed
  • Pattiann Rogers
    • The Literary Adventure
    • Portrait
  • Conrad Hilberry
    • The Sea
  • Thomas James
    • This Green Earth
  • Andrew Grossbardt
    • Photo from Costa Rica
    • The Mummies of Guanajuato
  • Carolyne Wright
    • Choosing My Name
Three Poems
  • Tomas Venclova
    • The Eleventh Song
    • A Poem about Memory
    • In Memory of the Poet. Variant. (Tr. by Jonas Zdanys)
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  • Edward O'Shea
    • A Note on Tomas Venclova
  • David Perkins
    • The Collected Nemerov
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Laurel Blossom
  • Stephen M. Gibson
  • Andrew Grossbardt
  • Conrad Hilberry
  • Thomas James
  • Elizabeth Libbey
  • Edward O'Shea
  • David Perkins
  • Pattiann Rogers
  • Philip Schultz
  • Gary Shabo
  • Tomas Venclova
  • Jeanne Murray Walker
  • Carolyne Wright
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