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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1986

August 1986

 
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Bruce Berger
  • Thomas Carper
  • John Ciardi
  • Tom Disch
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The Beauty of Poetry

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In Defense of Forest Lawn

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Written in My Dream by W. C. Williams

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Table of Contents

  • Thomas Carper
    • The Beauty of Poetry
    • Oh Keep the Poet Hence
    • What People Make
    • Heavenly Park
  • Tom Disch
    • In Defense of Forest Lawn
    • The Argument Resumed; Or, up through Tribeca
  • Allen Ginsberg
    • Written in My Dream by W. C. Williams
  • Judith Skillman
    • The Librarian Decides on Cryonics
  • Robert N. Feinstein
    • Heaven Can't Wait
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • A Monument
    • Seeing
    • The More Modest the Definition of Heaven, the Oftener We're There
  • Ben Howard
    • Because You Asked for a Bedtime Story
    • 1985
  • Bill Meissner
    • So Many Americans, Driving Late on Country Roads
  • David M. Graham
    • The Day I Cannot Stop Crying
    • Self-Portrait with Stage Fright
  • William Greenway
    • Our Father Who Art on Third
    • The Best Days of Your Life
  • Susan Kaplan
    • The Servant's Choice
  • Bruce Berger
    • Transmigration
Comment
  • John Frederick Nims
    • John Ciardi: The Many Lives of Poetry
Contents
  • Greg Kuzma
    • From Translations from the English
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Bruce Berger
  • Thomas Carper
  • Tom Disch
  • Robert N. Feinstein
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • David M. Graham
  • William Greenway
  • Ben Howard
  • Susan Kaplan
  • Greg Kuzma
  • Bill Meissner
  • John Frederick Nims
  • Judith Skillman
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