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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1978

November 1978

 
  • A. Ammons
  • David Bottoms
  • Helen Chasin
  • Norman Dubie
  • Robert Morgan
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Lost Colony

By Robert Morgan
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Francis's Barn

By Ricardo Sternberg
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Changes

By Helen S. Chasin
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Table of Contents

  • Robert Morgan
    • Lost Colony
    • Secret Pleasures
    • Pigeon Loft
    • Shucking Stick
    • Ship Burial
    • Snow beside the Shed
    • Cane Mill
    • Lost Flower
    • Fish-Top Falls
  • Ricardo Sternberg
    • Francis's Barn
    • Ana Louca
    • Exigencies of the Poem
  • Helen S. Chasin
    • Changes
    • Before the Power Failure New York, July 1977
  • A. R. Ammons
    • Strolls
    • The Brook Has Worked out the Prominences of a Bend
  • Carole Oles
    • Francestown Suite
    • One Page in "The American Heritage Dictionary"
    • On an Airplane, Considering Night
  • David Bottoms
    • Calling across Water at Lion Country Safari
    • Watching Gators at Ray Boone's Reptile Farm
    • The Catfish
  • Michael Ryan
    • The Past
    • Waking at Night
  • Ellen Bryant Voigt
    • Prey
  • Donald Revell
    • Theriot Cove
  • Norman Dubie
    • The Scrivener's Roses
Comment
  • Alan Williamson
    • "Fool,' Said My Muse to Me..."
    • Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman (Ed. by Peter Davison)
    • Selected Poems, by Margaret Atwood
    • Charon's Cosmology, by Charles Simic
    • A Call in the Midst of the Crowd, by Alfred Corn
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  • A. R. Ammons
  • David Bottoms
  • Helen S. Chasin
  • Norman Dubie
  • Robert Morgan
  • Carole Oles
  • Donald Revell
  • Michael Ryan
  • Ricardo Sternberg
  • Ellen Bryant Voigt
  • Alan Williamson
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