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January 1985

 
  • A. Ammons
  • Randy Blasing
  • David Clewell
  • Gregory Djanikian
  • William Ford
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Premature Elegy by Firelight

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Tonight Insomnia

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Coming Home

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Table of Contents

  • Roger Weingarten
    • Premature Elegy by Firelight
    • Apples
    • Not Quite a Love Poem
    • New Year's, Montpelier, 1885
  • Edward Mayes
    • Tonight Insomnia
  • Vern Rutsala
    • Coming Home
    • An American Morning
  • Boyer Rickel
    • From Where It's Dark
  • Laurel Trivelpiece
    • Ink Blots
    • Unborn
    • Morning Mists
    • Progress
  • Randy Blasing
    • North End
  • William Ford
    • Crossing Indian Land
    • The Eskimo Ivory Exhibition
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • You Hum
    • Problem Solving
    • We're Just about to Observe the Edge of the Universe
  • Gregory Djanikian
    • These Are the Gifts
    • The Theft
  • Miller Williams
    • A Poem for Emily
  • Carolyne Wright
    • Logos of the Sentimentalist
    • The Ship in the Bottle
  • David Clewell
    • New Year's Eve Letter to Friends
    • Two Alley Songs for the Vegetable Man: St. Louis
Comment
  • A. R. Ammons
    • Comment
  • Erich Heller
    • The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Ed. and tr. by Stephen Mitchell)
CONTRIBUTORS
  • A. R. Ammons
  • Randy Blasing
  • David Clewell
  • Gregory Djanikian
  • William Ford
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Erich Heller
  • Edward Mayes
  • Boyer Rickel
  • Vern Rutsala
  • Laurel Trivelpiece
  • Roger Weingarten
  • Miller Williams
  • Carolyne Wright
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