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December 1981

 
  • Alexander Albertus
  • Amy Clampitt
  • Stephen Dunn
  • Robert Farnsworth
  • Horace Gregory
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FUGITIVE

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NATURE & THE ARCHITECT

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MUSIC FOR PIANO AND ELECTRICAL STORM

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Table of Contents

Poems
  • Lisel Mueller
    • FUGITIVE
    • WHAT IS LEFT TO SAY
    • BEFORE THE CREDITS APPEAR ON THE SCREEN
    • FULL MOON
    • STALKING THE POEM
  • Horace Gregory
    • NATURE & THE ARCHITECT
  • Robert Farnsworth
    • MUSIC FOR PIANO AND ELECTRICAL STORM
    • SAMPLER
  • Jonathan Sisson
    • THE CROWS OF ST. THOMAS
  • Amy Clampitt
    • THE HICKORY GROVE
    • GOOSEBERRY FOOL
  • David Weiss
    • CLOSING TIME
    • IN AN ORCHARD ON THANKSGIVING
  • Philip Martin
    • CHRISTMAS GHOSTS
  • Barry Spacks
    • LIVING SIMPLY
    • WHAT'S FINE
  • Reg Saner
    • THE MAN-IN-THE-MOON
  • Carolyne Wright
    • CELEBRATION FOR THE COLD SNAP
  • Ernest Sandeen
    • PREDICTING THE PAST
  • Alexander Albertus
    • NOW AND AGAIN
    • BIT OF AN ELEGY
  • William Heyen
    • THE OREGON COAST AT SEAL ROCK: THINKING OF WALLACE STEVENS AT SEVENTY
    • THE BERRIES
  • Stephen Dunn
    • IN THE BLOWDOWN ZONE
    • THE SNOW LEOPARD
    • THE END OF THE WORLD
  • Ronald Lee Perry
    • THE HOLLOW WHITE
    • PORTRAIT OF A TREE
    • IN THE SMOKE
Comment
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • QUARTET
    • Caviare at the Funeral, by Louis Simpson
    • The Cheer, by William Meredith
    • Night Blooming Cactus, by Robert Watson
    • Selected Poems, by Mark Strand
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Alexander Albertus
  • Amy Clampitt
  • Stephen Dunn
  • Robert Farnsworth
  • Horace Gregory
  • William Heyen
  • Philip Martin
  • Lisel Mueller
  • Ronald Lee Perry
  • Ernest Sandeen
  • Reg Saner
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • Jonathan Sisson
  • Barry Spacks
  • David Weiss
  • Carolyne Wright
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