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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1978

June 1978

 
  • Gray Burr
  • Charles Gullans
  • Charles Hartman
  • Colette Inez
  • Tom Johnson
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from From an Explanation of America

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The Commercial Traveler Remembers Lost Love

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Meeting in Germany

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Table of Contents

  • Robert Pinsky
    • from From an Explanation of America
  • H. T. Kirby-Smith
    • The Commercial Traveler Remembers Lost Love
    • Eric on the Drums
  • Colette Inez
    • Meeting in Germany
  • Lucien Stryk
    • Cherries
  • Gary Soto
    • Salt
  • Grace Schulman
    • Blessed Is the Light
  • Leonard Trawick
    • The Underworld
    • Wood Fires
    • Severed Parts
  • Gray Burr
    • Mr. Thoben
    • A Ramble
    • Sunday at the Beach
  • Alan Williamson
    • Childless Couple
    • Sandy
  • Tom Johnson
    • How Plato Was Right
    • Wallace Stevens
  • Katha Pollitt
    • Eggplant
  • David Louis Posner
    • Dionysiou
    • Weasel
  • X J Kennedy
    • A Word from Hart Crane's Ghost
    • Jack and Jill
    • On a Well-Dressed Man Much Married
  • Charles Gullans
    • Philosopher Standing, Holding a Book
  • Charles O. Hartman
    • Daddy Long-Legs
    • Double Mock Sonnet
From Laughing with One Eye
  • Gjertrud Schnackenberg
    • Nightfishing
Comment
  • David Bromwich
    • The Way to "Sunday Morning"
  • Judith Moffett
    • A Wry Amaze of Attention
CONTRIBUTORS
  • David Bromwich
  • Gray Burr
  • Charles Gullans
  • Charles O. Hartman
  • Colette Inez
  • Tom Johnson
  • X J Kennedy
  • H. T. Kirby-Smith
  • Judith Moffett
  • Robert Pinsky
  • Katha Pollitt
  • David Louis Posner
  • Gjertrud Schnackenberg
  • Grace Schulman
  • Gary Soto
  • Lucien Stryk
  • Leonard Trawick
  • Alan Williamson
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