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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1977

August 1977

 
  • John Ashbery
  • Richard Freis
  • Emery George
  • Ben Howard
  • Francis King
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From this Issue

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Solstice

By Emery George
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Villa Serbelloni

By Francis King
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Life Story

By Richard Freis
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Table of Contents

  • Emery George
    • Solstice
  • Francis King
    • Villa Serbelloni
    • Down by the Lake, up at the Villa
    • Intruders
    • Lago di Como
    • Dawn
  • Richard Freis
    • Life Story
    • The Beach Motel
  • Ben Howard
    • Two Deer
  • John Ashbery
    • Fantasia on "The Nut-Brown Maid"
  • Barry Spacks
    • Imagining a Unicorn
  • Anne Winters
    • Demolition Crane
    • The Hall of Armor
    • Still Life with Pots
    • Readings in the Navigators
Comment
  • Ben Howard
    • Four Voices
    • The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Ed. by Donald Justice)
    • The Collected Poems: 1956-1974, by Edward Dorn
    • Night Cries, by Michael Benedikt
    • "A" 22 & 23, by Louis Zukofsky
  • Jay Parini
    • The Small Valleys of Our Living
    • Moving Out, by David Walker
    • Striking the Earth, by John Woods
    • Open Doorways, by Philip Appleman
    • The Names of the Lost, by Philip Levine
    • Lady of the Beasts, by Robin Morgan
CONTRIBUTORS
  • John Ashbery
  • Richard Freis
  • Emery George
  • Ben Howard
  • Francis King
  • Jay Parini
  • Barry Spacks
  • Anne Winters
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