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July 1986

 
  • Paul Alexander
  • Bruce Bawer
  • Marie Borroff
  • Turner Cassity
  • James Cole
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A Calling

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Understanding Poetry

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Faculty Offices, circa 1985

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Table of Contents

  • Maxine Kumin
    • A Calling
    • "Primitivism" Exhibit
    • Night Launch
    • The Festung, Salzburg
    • On Reading an Old Baedeker in Schloss Leopoldskron
  • Marie Borroff
    • Understanding Poetry
  • James Cole
    • Faculty Offices, circa 1985
  • David Keller
    • The Applicants for the Correspondence Course
  • Tom Disch
    • The Viewers and the Viewed: Eurailpass Verses, 1985
    • To the Young Mercenaries
    • The Dot on the i
  • William Hathaway
    • In Each Day
  • Turner Cassity
    • Inducted
    • The Autoscopic Experience
  • Carolyne Wright
    • Victor Jara (1938-1973)
    • Post-Revolutionary Letter
    • Love Affair in a Small Town
    • Return to Seattle: Bastille Day
  • Gary Myers
    • Invitation from a Deceased Spanish Poet
    • Ode to Sleep
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Safe Harbor
  • Katherine Soniat
    • Lighthouse Telephone
  • Kevin Cole
    • Indoor Pool
    • Autistic Boy
  • Paul Alexander
    • The Swimmers
  • Bruce Bawer
    • Beach
Contents
  • David Spurr
    • Selected Poems, by John Ashbery
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  • Paul Alexander
  • Bruce Bawer
  • Marie Borroff
  • Turner Cassity
  • James Cole
  • Kevin Cole
  • Tom Disch
  • William Hathaway
  • David Keller
  • Maxine Kumin
  • Gary Myers
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • Katherine Soniat
  • David Spurr
  • Carolyne Wright
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