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August 1974

 
  • John Ashbery
  • Alfred Corn
  • Rosamond Dauer
  • Laurence Lieberman
  • Estill Pollock
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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

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Burial Places

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An Oregon Journal

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Table of Contents

  • John Ashbery
    • Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
  • Rosamond Dauer
    • Burial Places
    • Seasonal Adjustment
  • Alfred Corn
    • An Oregon Journal
  • Estill Pollock
    • The American Book of the Dead
  • Laurence Lieberman
    • Daibutsu
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  • Laurence Lieberman
    • The Book of Mourning
    • The Story of Our Lives, by Mark Strand
    • The Owl's Insomnia, by Rafael Alberti (Ed. and tr. by Mark Strand)
  • Gerrit Henry
    • Starting from Scratch
    • The Fall of America: Poems of these States 1965-71, by Allen Ginsberg
    • Two Citizens, by James Wright
    • The Clam Theater, by Russell Edson
    • (Asian Figures), by W. S. Merwin
    • Fever Coast, by Carter Ratcliff
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  • John Ashbery
  • Alfred Corn
  • Rosamond Dauer
  • Gerrit Henry
  • Laurence Lieberman
  • Estill Pollock
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