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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1977

January 1977

 
  • Alfred Corn
  • Douglas Crase
  • John Hollander
  • Linda Pastan
  • Stephen Ratcliffe
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Nine to Five

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Motel View

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Experience and What to Make of It

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Table of Contents

  • Alfred Corn
    • Nine to Five
    • Spring and Summer
    • Impression
    • Some New Ruins
    • January
  • Donald Revell
    • Motel View
    • Animaux
    • Rodeo Aesthetique
  • Douglas Crase
    • Experience and What to Make of It
    • The Lake Effect
  • Stephen Ratcliffe
    • Pause, Pico Blanco
    • The View from Mono Pass
    • Summer Rain
    • Waterfall
  • Linda Pastan
    • Egg
    • Arithmetic Lesson: Infinity
From Spectral Emanations
  • John Hollander
    • From Spectral Emanations
    • Orange
    • Commentary on Orange
    • Yellow
    • Commentary on Yellow
    • In Place of Indigo, Who Fled Our Spectrum
    • Violet
    • After Violet
Comment
  • Richard Howard
    • Art or Knack?
    • All Roads at Once, by Alfred Corn
    • Sadness and Happiness, by Robert Pinsky
    • Boning the Dreamer, by Terry Stokes
    • A Nip in the Air, by John Betjeman
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Collected Poems 1951-1975, by Charles Causley
    • Turns, by John Matthias
    • The Life Beside This One, by John N. Morris
    • North, by Seamus Heaney
Contents
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • High Notes and Low
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Alfred Corn
  • Douglas Crase
  • John Hollander
  • Richard Howard
  • Linda Pastan
  • Stephen Ratcliffe
  • Donald Revell
  • Robert B. Shaw
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