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John Bensko
Malcolm Glass
Susan Hahn
Maxine Kumin
Sydney Lea

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Marianne, My Mother, and Me

Poem

The Implied Author

Poem

My Story as Told by Someone Else

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Table of Contents

Maxine Kumin
- Marianne, My Mother, and Me
John Bensko
- The Implied Author
Mekeel McBride
- My Story as Told by Someone Else
- The Earliest Maps
Sally Bennett Segall
- Finding the Lion
Susan Hahn
- Small Green
- Oral Interpretation
Alison Stone
- Spofford Hall
- Brandeis Senior Year
Sharon Olds
- May 1968
- After Making Love in Winter
J. Allyn Rosser
- In the (Subjunctive) Mood
- The Dropping of a Name
Richard Speakes
- Code of EthicsCoin Laundry Association
- Mama Loves Janis Joplin
Malcolm Glass
- Superstitions
Jeanne Murray Walker
- Coming into History
- Invocation to Convince a Baby Already Twelve Days Overdue to Come out of the Womb
Sydney Lea
- Over Brogno
Liz Rosenberg
Lisa Zeidner
- A Bomb

Six Poets in Search of a History

Sandra M. Gilbert

CONTRIBUTORS

John Bensko
Sandra M. Gilbert
Malcolm Glass
Susan Hahn
Maxine Kumin
Sydney Lea
Mekeel McBride
Sharon Olds
Liz Rosenberg
J. Allyn Rosser
Sally Bennett Segall
Richard Speakes
Alison Stone
Jeanne Murray Walker
Lisa Zeidner

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