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December 1996

 
  • Katherine Anderson
  • Robert Cording
  • Carl Dennis
  • Tom Disch
  • Faye George
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THE OLD YEAR

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BIOSOPHY, AN OPTIMIST'S MANIFESTO

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IMAGE ON A SANDSTONE DISC

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Table of Contents

  • W. S. Merwin
    • THE OLD YEAR
    • PORTOVENERE
    • LEGEND
    • SIXTH-FLOOR WALK-UP
    • RETURNS AFTER DARK
  • James Gurley
    • BIOSOPHY, AN OPTIMIST'S MANIFESTO
  • Greg Pape
    • IMAGE ON A SANDSTONE DISC
  • Carl Dennis
    • TWO GODS
  • Tom Disch
    • WHAT ELSE IS THERE
  • Paul Du Bois Jacobs
    • WINTERING AT THE END OF THE MISSISSIPPI
  • Anne Reynolds Voegtlen
    • STE.-CHAPELLE
  • Katherine Lucas Anderson
    • ANNUNCIATION
  • Linda Pastan
    • LETTER
    • The Obligation to Be Happy
  • Faye George
    • THE SUDDEN TUG OF THE FAMILIAR
  • Sharon Olds
    • SLEEP SUITE
  • J. T. Ledbetter
    • MY FATHER'S VOICE
  • Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth
    • EVENING STAR
  • Robert Cording
    • SELF-PORTRAIT
Contents
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • Poem Beginning with a Quote from Keith Laumer's Galactic Odyssey and Ending with a Quote from Mika Waltari's The Egyptian
    • Ancestored-Back Is the Overpresiding Spirit of This Poem
  • Leslie Ullman
    • Short Reviews
    • The Ghost Volcano, by Sandra M. Gilbert
    • Straight Out of View, by Joyce Sutphen
    • Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems, by Pattiann Rogers
    • The Bank of Beautiful Sins, by Robert Wrigley
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Katherine Lucas Anderson
  • Robert Cording
  • Carl Dennis
  • Tom Disch
  • Faye George
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • James Gurley
  • Paul Du Bois Jacobs
  • J. T. Ledbetter
  • Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Sharon Olds
  • Greg Pape
  • Linda Pastan
  • Leslie Ullman
  • Anne Reynolds Voegtlen
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