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October 1978

 
  • T. Broughton
  • Brendan Galvin
  • Anthony Hecht
  • Edward Hirsch
  • Daniel Langton
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The Venetian Vespers

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The Goods She Can Carry: Canticle of Her Basket Made of Reeds

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Table of Contents

  • Anthony Hecht
    • The Venetian Vespers
  • Gibbons Ruark
    • The Goods She Can Carry: Canticle of Her Basket Made of Reeds
  • T. Alan Broughton
    • Inhibition
    • Happiness
    • Loneliness
    • Fear
    • Grace
  • Daniel J. Langton
    • First Things
    • Again
  • Wes Magee
    • On the Esplanade
  • Sharon Olds
    • Ideographs
    • The Guild
  • James J. McAuley
    • Timepiece
  • Edward Hirsch
    • How to Get Back to Chester
  • Elizabeth Spires
    • Death Dress
    • Globe
  • Brendan Galvin
    • Stethoscope
    • Tautog
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  • Marvin Bell
    • Five Books
    • Collected Poems, 1953-1977, by Ernest Sandeen
    • Land Diving, by Robert Morgan
    • Night Talk and Other Poems, by Richard Pevear
    • Climb to the High Country, by Bill Hotchkiss
    • Cumberland Station, by Dave Smith
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  • T. Alan Broughton
  • Brendan Galvin
  • Anthony Hecht
  • Edward Hirsch
  • Daniel J. Langton
  • Wes Magee
  • James J. McAuley
  • Sharon Olds
  • Gibbons Ruark
  • Elizabeth Spires
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