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August 1993

 
  • Heather Allen
  • Wendy Barker
  • Turner Cassity
  • David Citino
  • Billy Collins
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Beside the Waterfall

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Clotheslines

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Homage

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Table of Contents

  • Mary Oliver
    • Beside the Waterfall
    • August
  • Michael McFee
    • Clotheslines
    • Pas de Deux
    • The All-Dog Siren Choir
  • Robert Wrigley
    • Homage
  • Wendy Barker
    • Taking a Language
    • Color Analysis
  • Robert Patrick Dana
    • Anniversary
  • David Citino
    • My Father Shaves with Occam's Razor
  • Lowell Jaeger
    • How He Cut Himself Shaving
  • F. D. Reeve
    • Ragged Island
  • Turner Cassity
    • Horizons and Myopia
    • Red Rust in the Sunset
  • Ben Downing
    • Saudades
    • Ranakpur
    • Pieces of Pangaea
  • Miriam Goodman
    • Widowed
    • Anxiety of Ten O'Clock
    • Hungry
  • Billy Collins
    • While Eating a Pear
    • Osso Buco
  • Julie Suk
    • Lamentation
    • Leaving the World We've Loved Speechless
  • Florence Cassen Mayers
    • Your Poem: Boat to Saltaire
    • Fishing Blues
  • Heather Allen
    • Dream Cycle
  • Sue Owen
    • These Fireflies
Comment
  • James Richardson
    • James Merrill: Room within Rooms
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Heather Allen
  • Wendy Barker
  • Turner Cassity
  • David Citino
  • Billy Collins
  • Robert Patrick Dana
  • Ben Downing
  • Miriam Goodman
  • Lowell Jaeger
  • Florence Cassen Mayers
  • Michael McFee
  • Mary Oliver
  • Sue Owen
  • F. D. Reeve
  • James Richardson
  • Julie Suk
  • Robert Wrigley
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