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May 1990

 
  • Wendy Barker
  • Jared Carter
  • Gillian Conoley
  • Mark Doty
  • Debora Greger
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Testament

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Amnesiac

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For an Old Flame

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Table of Contents

  • Dennis Hinrichsen
    • Testament
    • Poem of Mercy
  • Nicholas Samaras
    • Amnesiac
  • Jared Carter
    • For an Old Flame
  • Mary Karr
    • Etching of the Plague Years
  • Greg Johnson
    • Aid and Comfort
    • Sexual Outlaw
  • Gillian Conoley
    • The Farmer's Daughter and the Travelling Salesman
  • David Huddle
    • Asylum
  • Robert Hill Long
    • The Mouse
  • Wendy Barker
    • From the Attic at Thornfield
  • Debora Greger
    • Cleopatra in the Afterworld
    • The Boy Juliet
  • Robert Pack
    • The Dead King
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe
    • The Dead Cartesian
  • Robert J. Levy
    • Meditation on Virginia Woolf's Final Diary Entry, Written Three Weeks before Her Suicide
  • Alison Stone
    • What the Spirit Seeks
Facts and Figures
  • Steven Cramer
    • Facts and Figures
    • Night Landings, by Walter McDonald
    • Dien Cai Dau, by Yusef Komunyakaa
    • The Night Parade, by Edward Hirsch
    • Black Wings, by Len Roberts
    • The Burden Lifters, by Michael Waters
    • Once Out of Nature, by Jim Simmerman
Contents
  • Mark Doty
    • The Death of Antinoüs
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Wendy Barker
  • Jared Carter
  • Gillian Conoley
  • Steven Cramer
  • Mark Doty
  • Debora Greger
  • Dennis Hinrichsen
  • David Huddle
  • Greg Johnson
  • Mary Karr
  • Robert J. Levy
  • Robert Hill Long
  • Robert Pack
  • Nicholas Samaras
  • Alison Stone
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe
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