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October 1988

 
  • A. Ammons
  • Bruce Berger
  • Catherine Brewton
  • Billy Collins
  • Allen Fischer
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Anxiety's Prosody

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Nothing Is but What Is Not

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Highnotes

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Table of Contents

  • A. R. Ammons
    • Anxiety's Prosody
    • The Surprise of an Ending
    • All's All
    • Coming Clearing
  • Edward Mayes
    • Nothing Is but What Is Not
  • Allen C. Fischer
    • Highnotes
    • Ménage à Trois
    • Rare Earths
    • An Idea Without Wings
  • Bruce Berger
    • Impressionists
    • These Arias
    • Facing the Music
  • Mark Perlberg
    • Garden Vision
  • Lawrence Raab
    • Minor Painter, Paris, 1954
    • A Crow
  • Charles Wright
    • Vesper Journal
    • Bicoastal Journal
  • C. G. Hanzlicek
    • Heart
    • Adrenalin
    • Imagination
  • Catherine Brewton
    • A Game of Relativity
  • Billy Collins
    • Student of Clouds
  • Stanley Moss
    • The Decadent Poets of Kyoto
    • The Lace Makers
  • William Slaughter
    • Climbing Tai Shan
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  • Paul Breslin
    • The Simple, Separate Person and the Word En-Masse
    • Curriculum Vitae, by Lawrence Joseph
    • The Veil, by Denis Johnson
    • Dangerous Amusement, by Jon Davis
    • Objects of Affection, by Sharon Bryan
    • After the Lost War: A Narrative, by Andrew Hudgins
    • The Muse of Distance, by Alan Williamson
    • [Wendell Berry, Walt Whitman, Sidney Lanier]
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  • A. R. Ammons
  • Bruce Berger
  • Paul Breslin
  • Catherine Brewton
  • Billy Collins
  • Allen C. Fischer
  • C. G. Hanzlicek
  • Edward Mayes
  • Stanley Moss
  • Mark Perlberg
  • Lawrence Raab
  • William Slaughter
  • Charles Wright
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