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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1985

December 1985

 
  • Joan Aleshire
  • Jennifer Atkinson
  • Raymond Carver
  • Carl Dennis
  • Celia Gilbert
Table of Contents

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Mother

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The Relatives

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In the Golden Sala

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Table of Contents

  • Raymond Carver
    • Mother
    • Mesopotamia
    • Stupid
  • Ed Ochester
    • The Relatives
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • In the Golden Sala
    • For Miss Lewis and Miss Newton
  • Herbert Morris
    • Latin
  • Robert Huff
    • Auld Lang Syne
  • Jennifer Atkinson
    • Philosophy Class
  • Carl Dennis
    • Winter Light
    • Heinrich Schliemann
  • Joan Aleshire
    • Nausikaa
    • Orion
    • Images from the Floating World
Persephone Ascending
  • Celia Gilbert
    • Letter Home
  • Celia Gilbert
    • Crossing
  • Jay Meek
    • Voyager Music
Six Reviews
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • Six Reviews
    • What the Light Was Like, by Amy Clampitt
    • My Mother's Body, by Marge Piercy
    • Hemispheres, by Grace Schulman
    • Wyndmere, by Carol Muske
    • The Lamplit Answer, by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
    • Assumptions, by Marilyn Hacker
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  • Joan Aleshire
  • Jennifer Atkinson
  • Raymond Carver
  • Carl Dennis
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Celia Gilbert
  • Robert Huff
  • Jay Meek
  • Herbert Morris
  • Ed Ochester
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