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December 1991

 
  • Lucille Broderson
  • Thomas Brush
  • Ioanna Carlsen
  • David Citino
  • Billy Collins
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The Parents

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Table of Contents

  • David Citino
    • Winter
  • Robert J. Levy
    • The Parents
    • Beyond Recipes
  • Floyd Skloot
    • Solstice
  • Cathy Song
    • Eat
    • Christmas Eve
Two Songs from a Car
  • Ioanna Carlsen
    • Two Songs from a Car
    • Hawk
    • Love in Winter
  • Marvin Solomon
    • Emily's Room
  • Billy Collins
    • Fiftieth Birthday Eve
    • Dancing toward Bethlehem
  • William Collins Watterson
    • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
  • Ernest Sandeen
    • Soon after Nightfall
  • Lucille Broderson
    • September Sunday
    • This Is Your Old Age, Lucy
    • Requiem
  • Thomas Brush
    • Stars
  • Rick Madigan
    • Sacraments
  • Jean Janzen
    • St. Basil's Cathedral
  • Larry Kramer
    • Wild Onions
  • Stanley Moss
    • Stations
  • Terry Savoie
    • Hairbrush
    • School for Missionaries
  • Mark Doty
    • To Bessie Drennan
Short Reviews
  • Alfred Corn
    • Short Reviews
    • Living in Time, by Rachel Hadas
    • Lenten Anniversaries, Poems 1982- 1989, by Ben Howard
    • Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm with Fingers, by Yehuda Amichai (Tr. by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav)
    • Collected Poems, by Edwin Morgan
    • Flow Chart, by John Ashbery
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Lucille Broderson
  • Thomas Brush
  • Ioanna Carlsen
  • David Citino
  • Billy Collins
  • Alfred Corn
  • Mark Doty
  • Jean Janzen
  • Larry Kramer
  • Robert J. Levy
  • Rick Madigan
  • Stanley Moss
  • Ernest Sandeen
  • Terry Savoie
  • Floyd Skloot
  • Marvin Solomon
  • Cathy Song
  • William Collins Watterson
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