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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1982

January 1982

 
  • Erich Heller
  • Sidney Burris
  • H. D.
  • Dave Etter
  • Irving Feldman
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Message from the Sleeper at Hell's Mouth

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Letter to a Lost Friend

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Just Another Smack

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Table of Contents

  • Alicia Ostriker
    • Message from the Sleeper at Hell's Mouth
  • Terry Savoie
    • Letter to a Lost Friend
    • An Unconscious History
  • Irving Feldman
    • Just Another Smack
  • Erica Funkhouser
    • Earth Day in Provincetown
  • Hugh Seidman
    • The Ill
  • Dana Gioia
    • My Secret Life
  • Dave Etter
    • When Sister Pearl Does Her Homework
    • Body
  • Sidney Burris
    • On Living with a Fat Woman in Heaven
  • Susan Ludvigson
    • Some Notes on Courage
  • Richard Moore
    • Poets
  • Kathleen Spivack
    • Outboard Engines
  • Rennie McQuilkin
    • Miss Caroline
    • Isobel at 87
  • Martin Matthew Kegg
    • Pow-Wow Shots
  • James Laughlin
    • The Child
  • H.D.
    • Delphi
Comment
  • Erich Heller
    • Gists and Piths: From the Letters of Pound and Williams
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Sidney Burris
  • Dave Etter
  • Irving Feldman
  • Erica Funkhouser
  • Dana Gioia
  • H.D.
  • Erich Heller
  • Martin Matthew Kegg
  • James Laughlin
  • Susan Ludvigson
  • Rennie McQuilkin
  • Richard Moore
  • Alicia Ostriker
  • Terry Savoie
  • Hugh Seidman
  • Kathleen Spivack
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