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November 1986

 
  • Eamon Grennan
  • Martin McGovern
  • Joyce Oates
  • Joseph Powell
  • Vern Rutsala
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Aubade

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At Home in Winter

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White Water

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Table of Contents

Poems
  • Aleda Shirley
    • Aubade
  • Eamon Grennan
    • At Home in Winter
    • Houseplants in Winter
    • The Coming Day
  • Vern Rutsala
    • White Water
    • Shelter
  • Joseph Powell
    • Winter's Insomnia
    • Ode to Sleep
  • Mona Van Duyn
    • In Bed with a Book
    • Near Changes
    • Views
  • Eric Trethewey
    • Luck
    • In the Landscape of Opinion
    • Where Were You Headed?
  • J. P. White
    • Walking to the Theater, I Tell You a Story about a Runaway
    • Thanksgiving Night, Old Town, Portland, Oregon
  • Martin McGovern
    • For Charles and Mary Lamb
  • Joyce Carol Oates
    • Burning Oak, November
    • Weedy Logic
Brief Reviews
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Brief Reviews
    • Blue Juniata: A Life, by Malcolm Cowley
    • Selected Poems: 1935-1985, by James Laughlin
    • The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth
    • New and Collected Poems: 1970-1985, by David Ignatow
    • Relations: Selected Poems, 1950-1985, by Philip Booth
    • Personal Accounts: New & Selected Poems, 1966-1986, by Robert Phillips
    • Collected Poems: 1917-1982, by Archibald MacLeish
    • [Ezra Pound, Robert Frost]
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Eamon Grennan
  • Martin McGovern
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Joseph Powell
  • Vern Rutsala
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • Aleda Shirley
  • Eric Trethewey
  • Mona Van Duyn
  • J. P. White
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