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October 1982

 
  • John Bayley
  • John Nims
  • A. Ammons
  • John Ciardi
  • Dorothy Donnelly
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Table of Contents

  • A. R. Ammons
    • Meeting Place
    • Yadkin Picnic
    • Singling and Doubling Together
  • John Ciardi
    • Mutterings
  • Dorothy Donnelly
    • Faces
  • Rita Dove
    • Flirtation
  • Anthony Hecht
    • On Translation
    • Anthem
    • Horatian Virtue
  • Daryl Hine
    • Sapphics
    • Window or Wall
  • James Merrill
    • The Blue Grotto
    • After the Ball
  • Howard Nemerov
    • A Moon Eclipsed
    • A Sprig of Dill
    • Learning
    • Adam and Eve in Later Life
    • Disseverings, Divorces
    • Poetics
  • Pattiann Rogers
    • The Doctrine
  • David Wagoner
    • Their Bodies
  • Richard Wilbur
    • Hamlen Brook
Comment
  • Helen Hennessy Vendler
    • Spheres and Ragged Edges
Contents
  • John Bayley
    • Contemporary British Poetry: A Romantic Persistence?
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  • Howard Nemerov
  • Pattiann Rogers
  • Helen Hennessy Vendler
  • David Wagoner
  • Richard Wilbur
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