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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1973

September 1973

 
  • Sandra Gilbert
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Andrew Hoyem
  • Maxine Kumin
  • James Merrill
Table of Contents

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(26: "In the night...")

By Muriel Rukeyser
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Mc Kane's Falls

By James Merrill
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Light & Shadow

By Anne Waldman
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Table of Contents

  • Muriel Rukeyser
    • (26: "In the night...")
    • (18: "How we live...")
    • From Breaking Open
  • James Merrill
    • Mc Kane's Falls
  • Anne Waldman
    • Light & Shadow
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • The Dream of Shooting Stars
    • The Fog Dream
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • The Bittersweet Comfort of Motley Detail
  • John N. Morris
    • Mystery Story
    • The Companion
  • Michael Ryan
    • A Posthumous Poetics
  • Maxine Kumin
    • The Knot
    • The Selling of the Slaves
Comment
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • No Strokes of Lightning
    • Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems, by W. H. Auden
    • Lugging Vegetables to Nantucket, by Peter Klappert
    • Mysteries of the Horizon, by Lawrence Raab
    • The View from the Peacock's Tail, by M. L. Rosenthal
    • The Blue Cat, by F. D. Reeve
    • The Blue Garden, by Barbara Howes
    • In the Terrified Radiance, by Stanley Burnshaw
  • Richard Howard
    • Four Originals
    • Collected Poems of John Wheelwright
    • Lost Originals, by Irving Feldman
    • Adequate Earth, by Donald Finkel
    • Native Grass, by Paul Smyth
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Richard Howard
  • Maxine Kumin
  • James Merrill
  • John N. Morris
  • Muriel Rukeyser
  • Michael Ryan
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • Anne Waldman
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