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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1983

July 1983

 
  • Norman Dubie
  • Alice Fulton
  • Sandra Gilbert
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Vanessa Haley
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("What's wrong is to live...")

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Doing the Evolution Shuffle

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Author, Author

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Table of Contents

Poems
  • William Matthews
    • ("What's wrong is to live...")
    • ("Maybe what's wrong...")
    • ("It's too quiet...")
    • ("By itself...")
    • ("There's some wrong...")
    • Poems from Wrong
    • ("On the way to the rink...")
    • ("Too right, my son accuses me...")
    • ("Four months of his life...")
    • ("Gauche, sinister...")
    • ("Right as rain you are...")
    • Poems from Right
  • Alice Fulton
    • Doing the Evolution Shuffle
    • Plumbline
  • Michael Hofmann
    • Author, Author
  • David Wagoner
    • The Waterlily
    • By Starlight
    • Our Blindness
    • A Guide to the Field
  • Mary Jo Salter
    • Japanese Characters
  • James Ulmer
    • Before the Harvest
    • From a Box of Old Photographs
  • William Heyen
    • Mother and Son
    • Between Flights
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • History
    • Simplicity
    • In the Forest of Symbols
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Chronometrics
  • Norman Dubie
    • Revelations
  • Vanessa Haley
    • The Housesitter
    • Home
  • Gary Waller
    • European Vacation
    • Grave Meeting
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • From the Agnostic's Holy Sonnets: Raising the Dead
    • Diagrams
    • These Likenesses
    • That Gap
Comment
  • Bonnie Costello
    • The Complete Elizabeth Bishop
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Bonnie Costello
  • Norman Dubie
  • Alice Fulton
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Vanessa Haley
  • William Heyen
  • Michael Hofmann
  • William Matthews
  • Mary Jo Salter
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • James Ulmer
  • David Wagoner
  • Gary Waller
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