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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1969

January 1969

 
  • Michael Hamburger
  • Philip Booth
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Larry Eigner
  • David Galler
Table of Contents

From this Issue

Poem

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Sleeping with Women

By Kenneth Koch
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Poem

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Those without Metaphor

By Helen Singer
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Bolt

By Philip Booth
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Table of Contents

  • Kenneth Koch
    • Sleeping with Women
  • Helen Singer
    • Those without Metaphor
    • The Most Distant Future
    • In the Ending, the Word Is Not
    • The Old Salt
    • Retread
    • Mr. Mohan Pal's Plant
    • A Delhi Lawn and Its Dew
    • The Unguarded Rooms
  • Philip Booth
    • Bolt
    • Crows
    • Chekhov
  • Lewis Turco
    • Home Thoughts
  • David Galler
    • Orpheus
  • Mitchell Goodman
    • Waiting
  • Hugh Seidman
    • Bookstore
    • Surreal Poem
    • Demonstration
  • Stephen Dobyns
    • Name-Burning
    • Waking, the Cheering Begins
  • Ron Silliman
    • He Was a Visitor
  • Larry Eigner
    • ("the air/stirs...")
    • Three Poems
    • ("the strength of a wing...")
    • ("dangerous/diving...")
  • Anselm Hollo
    • The Lights Going on in the Rooms Strung out Back through the Years
    • Poem ("a painting with no...")
    • Any News from Alpha Centauri
Comment
  • Ralph J. Mills Jr.
    • Critic of the Month: V
Correspondence
  • Michael Hamburger
    • Pound's Text
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Philip Booth
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Larry Eigner
  • David Galler
  • Mitchell Goodman
  • Michael Hamburger
  • Anselm Hollo
  • Kenneth Koch
  • Ralph J. Mills Jr.
  • Hugh Seidman
  • Ron Silliman
  • Helen Singer
  • Lewis Turco
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