Poetry Magazine
Table of Contents
October 1987
Cover art: Edward Koren.
Of Two Languages- Interview with a Policeman
Another Knowledge
Gathering by the River
Unreleased Movie
Domestic Lament
On Arriving
The Moon Is Visible Tonight
To My Mother
Calling
First Snow: Cambridge, Mass
Prayer for My Father
Presence
Armored Hearts
Winnie
The Inverse Square Law of the Propagation of Light
The Museum of Fine Arts
Hugo
The Bearer
Improvisation
The Toes
The Net
Prometheus in Polynesia
Westward
Ars Poetica
The Chi-Rho Page from the Book of Kells
Equinox 1980
Horace and I
Gila Bend
The Six
Medusa at Her Vanity
Alexandria, 1953
Long Story
Ars Poetica
Why I Think I'm a Writer
Island
Singular, Desolate, out of It
Speech of Acceptance
Drop of Water
The Phrygian Version
Old Stories
Trouble in Mind
If Poetry Were Not a Morality
Redwing
She's Painted a Blue Fish, a Red Apple
Against Poetry
Night Watch
The Way the Novel Functions
Patch Work
Fables
Some Basic Aesthetics
Coordinating Conjunction
Famed Dancer Dies of Phosphorus Poisoning
Witness
Life of Sundays
Middle Aged Lovers I
On Nature
On Being Accused of Wit
Ocelots, Etc.
After an Illness, Walking the Dog
At the Ocean's Edge
What People Say about Paris
Nurture
With the Caribou
A Day in Late November
My AmbitionTwo Four-Liners
Keats in California
Sunday Morning at the Artists' House
Animal Actors on the English Stage after 1642
Achill Island
The Man with the Radios
Presbyterian, 1983
Doors
Did You Bring Me Anything?
School Days
Grace
Alessio and the Zinnias
After the Alphabets
A Last Look
Coffee-Coloured Horses of the Moon
Song of the Terrible
The Cardinal
Elegy for Myself
When I Am Asked
Dropping the Names
Waiting on Elvis, 1956
Motive, Metaphor
The Day They Tied Me Up
On Greyhound, Boston to New York
The Hermit Crab
Shark and Cockroach
Stream
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Lover
Family Tree
When I Love You
Suburban Interior
Voyage to the Moon
An Anthology of Socialist Verse
Fishbowl
Pontormo's Sister
Unbeaten Play
Stories in Which the Past Is Made
One View of the Wide, Wide World
Dreamwood
April in a Mountain Cabin: Swiss Pine Lake, North Carolina
The Laying-on of HandsAt the Last
From a Daybook
A Late Twentieth-Century Prayer
Words for Dr. Richards
Inspiration
August Third
With Hands Wide Open
Straight Talk, Straight as the Greek
The Eight-Mile Bike Ride
Let's All Hear It for Mildred Bailey!
Retirement
On Being Yanked from a Favorite Anthology
To His Pulse
The Immortal
Back at the Chicken Shack
Palmetto Special
Journey to the Interior
Desire
Who Will Know Us?
The Uncles
Farewell to My Student
Presenting These Pieces
Noticing
Your Life
Living Apart
Catalogue Raisonné of My Refrigerator Door
Brain of My Heart
Nightmares, Daymoths
Icon
To Himself
Botanist
Third Floor Walk-up, 1984
Nuisance
Master of None
North with Lawren Harris
Night Ferry
A Bouquet of Zinnias
For the Young Vine Maples
Theater
Travelling Highway 97: Biggs Junction to Weed
Just Another Sunset
An Old Cart
In Ecclesiastes I Read
Trolling for Blues
What You See
A Fifteenth Anniversary: John Berryman
American Poem of the Senior Citizenry
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