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August 1987

 
  • Debra Allbery
  • John Ashbery
  • Bruce Berger
  • Michelle Boisseau
  • Neal Bowers
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Ostensibly

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Playing for the Pickerel One August Night

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Peace

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Table of Contents

  • John Ashbery
    • Ostensibly
    • Adam Snow
    • Morning Jitters
    • Amid Mounting Evidence
    • Riddle Me
  • J. P. White
    • Playing for the Pickerel One August Night
    • To Confucius
  • Leslie Ullman
    • Peace
    • Dawn Feeding
  • Roger Weingarten
    • Persona Non Grata
    • Nightwatch
  • Carl Dennis
    • The Deacon's Complaint
    • Last Words
  • Neal Bowers
    • Aliens
    • Apple Mechanics
  • Walter Kirn
    • Small Farmer
    • No Surmise
    • The Detective Agency
  • Debra Allbery
    • Children's Story
    • Lapse
    • Offering
  • Robert Phillips
    • Wish You Were Here
    • Letter from the Country
  • Michelle Boisseau
    • Partial Eclipse
    • We Return to a Plain Sense of Things
  • Bruce Berger
    • The Wedding Gift
    • To Answer Your Question
    • Family Reading
  • Gregory Orr
    • Available Now: Archaic Torsos of Both Sexes
Comment
  • Paul Breslin
    • Four Poets: Collected and Selected
    • Collected Poems, by Geoffrey Hill
    • Collected Poems, by Charles Tomlinson
    • The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: Volume I, 1909-1939 (Ed. by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan) [Donald Davie]
    • The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Ed. and tr. by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell)
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  • Michelle Boisseau
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  • Paul Breslin
  • Carl Dennis
  • Walter Kirn
  • Gregory Orr
  • Robert Phillips
  • Leslie Ullman
  • Roger Weingarten
  • J. P. White
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