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July 1976

 
  • Peter Cooley
  • Richard Kenney
  • Jayanta Mahapatra
  • Philip Murray
  • Arthur Oberg
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The Day after My Friends Became Godly and Great

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From the Gulf

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The Dogs of War

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Table of Contents

  • Jayanta Mahapatra
    • The Day after My Friends Became Godly and Great
    • Glass
    • A Sailboat of Occasions
    • The House
    • A Wind of Judgment
    • The Retreat
    • Flight
  • Peter Cooley
    • From the Gulf
    • Conclusion of a Letter to the Angel
    • An Exorcism
    • Observances
  • Thomas Rabbitt
    • The Dogs of War
  • Philip Murray
    • Eros as the Genius of Death
  • Arthur Oberg
    • On the Random Brightness of Letters and Numbers
    • Tempering the End of Summer's Fall
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • A Man and His Watch
    • Renovations
    • Watching the Street
  • Katha Pollitt
    • Alcestis
  • Robert J. Solomon
    • Don Quixote in the Desert
The Hours of the Day
  • Richard Kenney
    • In Retrospect
Comment
  • David Shapiro
    • Into the Gloom
    • Celebrations After the Death of John Brennan, by X. J. Kennedy
    • The Buffalo Shoot, by Greg Kuzma
    • The Bloomingdale Papers, by Hayden Carruth
    • To All Appearances: Poems New and Selected, by Josephine Miles
  • John Matthias
    • Such a Kingdom
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  • Peter Cooley
  • Richard Kenney
  • Jayanta Mahapatra
  • John Matthias
  • Philip Murray
  • Arthur Oberg
  • Katha Pollitt
  • Thomas Rabbitt
  • David Shapiro
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • Robert J. Solomon
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