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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1981

June 1981

 
  • Yehuda Amichai
  • James Applewhite
  • John Hollander
  • Mary Karr
  • Richmond Lattimore
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The Last Paris Poem

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A Meeting with My Father

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Table of Contents

  • John Hollander
    • Thirteens
  • Mary Karr
    • The Last Paris Poem
    • Diogenes Tries to Forget
    • The New Year
    • My New Diet
    • Lipstick
  • Yehuda Amichai
    • A Meeting with My Father
    • Things That Have Been Lost
  • Sharyn November
    • At the Eye Clinic
    • Travelling by Water
  • Reynolds Price
    • Rescue
  • Richmond Lattimore
    • Flesh Tones
    • Bone Structure
  • Mona Van Duyn
    • Photographs
  • James Applewhite
    • Science Fiction
  • Wesley McNair
    • The Fat Enter Heaven
    • Hair on Television
  • David McAleavey
    • Reading Mark Trail
  • Sandra McPherson
    • Living Glass
    • Singing Teakettle
    • Preparing the Will, Three Generations
    • DiaryMay 15, 1980Twin Cities
Comment
  • Lisel Mueller
    • Three Poets
    • The Glass Houses, by John N. Morris
    • Satan Says, by Sharon Olds
    • In the Fourth World, by Sandra M. Gilbert
Contents
  • Yehuda Amichai
    • Rain in a Foreign Land (Tr. by Tudor Parfitt and Glenda Abramson)
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Yehuda Amichai
  • James Applewhite
  • John Hollander
  • Mary Karr
  • Richmond Lattimore
  • David McAleavey
  • Wesley McNair
  • Sandra McPherson
  • Lisel Mueller
  • Sharyn November
  • Reynolds Price
  • Mona Van Duyn
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