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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1977

February 1977

 
  • Maureen Bloomfield
  • Philip Dacey
  • Tom Disch
  • Gwen Head
  • William Keens
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Descriptions of the Wilderness

By Tom Disch
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From the Clearing

By Philip Dacey
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The Cellar

By Gary Soto
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Table of Contents

  • Tom Disch
    • Descriptions of the Wilderness
  • Philip Dacey
    • From the Clearing
  • Gary Soto
    • The Cellar
  • John Frederick Nims
    • Cardiological
  • John N. Morris
    • The Hours You Keep
    • Halloween
    • Map Problems
    • The Christmas Letter
  • Mary Swander
    • Letter
    • In a Dream
    • Song ("And each night...")
  • Paul Monette
    • The Wedding Letter
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  • Robert Holland
    • Six or Seven Fools
    • Grief: Poems and Versions of Poems, by Stephen Berg
    • Riding the Earthboy 40, by James Welch
    • Transplants, by Cynthia Macdonald
    • Inscripts, by Samuel Hazo
    • Separations, by Marilyn Hacker
    • Vital Signs: New and Selected Poems, by David Slavitt
    • [Anton Chekhov]
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • On the Edge of the Estate
    • The New York Head Shop and Museum, by Audre Lorde
    • Cheap, by Ruth Stone
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Philip Dacey
  • Tom Disch
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Robert Holland
  • Paul Monette
  • John N. Morris
  • John Frederick Nims
  • Gary Soto
  • Mary Swander
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