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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1978

December 1978

 
  • Philip Appleman
  • Jean Burden
  • Tom Disch
  • Stephen Dunn
  • Marilyn Hacker
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A Christmas Poem

By Conrad Hilberry
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Third Snowfall

By Marilyn Hacker
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Blizzard

By Linda Pastan
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Table of Contents

  • Conrad Hilberry
    • A Christmas Poem
  • Marilyn Hacker
    • Third Snowfall
  • Linda Pastan
    • Blizzard
  • Tom Disch
    • Luxe, Calme, et Désespoir
    • Poems
    • Abecedary
    • To Our Christmas Tree
  • Peter Meinke
    • Azaleas
    • The Artist
    • Elephant Tusks
    • Playing Badminton: Sunday Afternoon 1968
  • Philip Appleman
    • Mr. Extinction, Meet Ms. Survival
From the Monastery of Work and Love
  • Stephen Dunn
    • From The Monastery of Work and Love
    • Welcome
    • Work
    • The Photograph in the Hallway
    • Movie Night
  • George Starbuck
    • Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree
Comment
  • David Bromwich
    • I Showed Her My Darkness, She Gave Me a Stone
    • China Trace, by Charles Wright
    • The Double Witness, by Ben Belitt
    • The Year of Our Birth, by Sandra McPherson
    • Eye Level, by Jane Shore
    • [Hart Crane]
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Philip Appleman
  • David Bromwich
  • Tom Disch
  • Stephen Dunn
  • Marilyn Hacker
  • Conrad Hilberry
  • Peter Meinke
  • Linda Pastan
  • George Starbuck
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