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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1978

July 1978

 
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • William Heyen
  • Robert Huff
  • Lawrence Kearney
  • Judith Leet
Table of Contents

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Poster

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Why We Tell Stories

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Going to the Whitney and Walking on the Floor

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Table of Contents

  • David R. Slavitt
    • Poster
  • Lisel Mueller
    • Why We Tell Stories
    • Found in the Cabbage Patch
    • The Story
  • May Swenson
    • Going to the Whitney and Walking on the Floor
    • Digging in the Garden of Age I Uncover a Live Root
    • Ending
  • Stephen Dobyns
    • A Separate Time
    • Song for Putting Aside Anger
    • Song for Making the Birds Come
    • Morning Song
  • Paul Smyth
    • Timing
    • Of Scholarship, Divorce, and Lunch
    • Day Moon
Comment
  • Richard Howard
    • Report from the Academy
    • Five Temperaments, by David Kalstone
    • Robert Frost, by Richard Poirier
  • William H. Pritchard
    • Expressing the Difference
    • Reservations, by James Richardson
    • Collected Poems 1948-1976, by Dannie Abse
    • Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems, by William Stafford
    • The Selected Poems 1951-1977 and The Snow Poems, by A. R. Ammons
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Richard Howard
  • Lisel Mueller
  • William H. Pritchard
  • David R. Slavitt
  • Paul Smyth
  • May Swenson
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