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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1978

May 1978

 
  • Christina Mahony
  • A. Ammons
  • Philip Appleman
  • Bruce Bennett
  • Frederick Bock
Table of Contents

From this Issue

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Chant Royal

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The World Isn't a Wedding of the Artists of Yesterday

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State of Nature

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Table of Contents

  • Robert Morgan
    • Chant Royal
  • Norman Dubie
    • The World Isn't a Wedding of the Artists of Yesterday
  • Philip Appleman
    • State of Nature
  • Lisel Mueller
    • The Artist's Model, ca. 1912
  • Ira Sadoff
    • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Philip Dacey
    • Hopkins under Ether
  • William E. Stafford
    • Resolutions
  • Michael Ryan
    • When I Was Conceived
  • Ellen Bryant Voigt
    • The Starveling
  • Linda Pastan
    • On Hearing the Testimony of Those Revived after Cardiac Arrest
  • David Bottoms
    • Crawling out at Parties
  • Marilyn Hacker
    • Lines Declining a Transatlantic Dinner Invitation
  • Tom Disch
    • High Purpose in Poetry: A Primer
  • A. R. Ammons
    • Persistences
  • Thomas Lux
    • Poem Beginning with a Random Phrase from Coleridge
  • May Swenson
    • Fashion in the 70's
  • Frederick Bock
    • Grasshoppers
  • John Ciardi
    • Censorship
  • Robert Pack
    • The Meeting
  • Caroline Knox
    • I Have Met Freddy
Contents
  • Christina Hunt Mahony
    • A Note on "The Watch-Fire," by W. B. Yeats (With Edward O'Shea)
CONTRIBUTORS
  • A. R. Ammons
  • Philip Appleman
  • Frederick Bock
  • David Bottoms
  • John Ciardi
  • Philip Dacey
  • Tom Disch
  • Norman Dubie
  • Marilyn Hacker
  • Caroline Knox
  • Thomas Lux
  • Christina Hunt Mahony
  • Robert Morgan
  • Lisel Mueller
  • Robert Pack
  • Linda Pastan
  • Michael Ryan
  • Ira Sadoff
  • William E. Stafford
  • May Swenson
  • Ellen Bryant Voigt
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