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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1978

August 1978

 
  • Jean Burden
  • John Ciardi
  • Brewster Ghiselin
  • Geoffrey Grigson
  • Caroline Knox
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Fearing Invasion

By Geoffrey Grigson
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While Watching "Young and Innocent" I Think of My Mother

By Ira Sadoff
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Gasoline

By William E. Stafford
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Table of Contents

  • Geoffrey Grigson
    • Fearing Invasion
    • Annotation
    • Joan of Arc's Stone, Le Crotoy
  • Ira Sadoff
    • While Watching "Young and Innocent" I Think of My Mother
    • The Mc Carthy Hearings
  • William E. Stafford
    • Gasoline
  • John N. Morris
    • The End of the Rental
    • At the Death of Gulliver
    • All He Knows
    • Man and Boy
    • Archaeology
  • John Ciardi
    • The Lungfish
    • For Instance
    • Machine
  • Linda Pastan
    • Pain
    • Excursion
  • James Tate
    • With a Child All Day
  • Miller Williams
    • For Rebecca, for Whom Nothing Has Been Written Page after Page
    • Style
    • The Woman in the Room
    • Love and How It Becomes Important in Our Day to Day Lives
    • Evening: A Studio in Rome
  • Robert Pack
    • Rules
  • Caroline Knox
    • The Fat Baby
    • Herbert Smith
    • Walden Remaindered
    • The Foamy-Necked Floater
    • Hittites
Comment
  • J. D. McClatchy
    • Grace and Rude Will
  • Robert Pinsky
    • More of the Story
CONTRIBUTORS
  • John Ciardi
  • Geoffrey Grigson
  • Caroline Knox
  • J. D. McClatchy
  • John N. Morris
  • Robert Pack
  • Linda Pastan
  • Robert Pinsky
  • Ira Sadoff
  • William E. Stafford
  • James Tate
  • Miller Williams
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