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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1988

July 1988

 
  • Diane Ackerman
  • Neal Bowers
  • Peter Davison
  • Malcolm Glass
  • Mark Jarman
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Living on Light

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Death at a Great Distance

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The War of the Pelicans

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Table of Contents

  • Malcolm Glass
    • Living on Light
    • Legerdemain
    • Soaring: Goal and Return
  • Mary Oliver
    • Death at a Great Distance
    • Singapore
    • The Kingfisher
  • Peter Davison
    • The War of the Pelicans
  • Robert Wrigley
    • For the Last Summer
    • Creel
  • Andrew Towle
    • Nocturne
    • Between Stations
  • Diane Ackerman
    • Beija-Flor
  • Michael Waters
    • Scorpions
    • Bountiful
    • The Inarticulate
  • Chase Twichell
    • Lapses of Turquoise Sea
  • Joseph Powell
    • Tucquala Lake
  • J. W. Rivers
    • Hiking with the Old Acorn Lady
    • Reconciliation
  • Paul McRay
    • MsaMohave
  • Katherine Soniat
    • Secrets about Nothing
  • Neal Bowers
    • Stump Speech
  • Mark Jarman
    • Shyness of the Muse in an Almond Orchard
  • David Wagoner
    • Dizzy
    • Come with Me
  • Dave Smith
    • Clay
    • Writing Spider
    • The Virginian
    • Sugar
  • J. Allyn Rosser
    • My Father's Palette
Comment
  • Harold Fromm
    • Where Are We Going, Walt Whitman?
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Diane Ackerman
  • Neal Bowers
  • Peter Davison
  • Harold Fromm
  • Malcolm Glass
  • Mark Jarman
  • Paul McRay
  • Mary Oliver
  • Joseph Powell
  • J. W. Rivers
  • J. Allyn Rosser
  • Dave Smith
  • Katherine Soniat
  • Andrew Towle
  • Chase Twichell
  • David Wagoner
  • Michael Waters
  • Robert Wrigley
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