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May 1979

 
  • Charles Baxter
  • George Bradley
  • Paul Breslin
  • Don Coles
  • Dave Etter
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Meditations on the Field Museum

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Limits

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Eutrophication

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Table of Contents

  • Paul Breslin
    • Meditations on the Field Museum
  • Margaret Kent
    • Limits
    • The Uneasy
    • The Stammerers
  • Evan Zimroth
    • Eutrophication
  • Diana Hendry
    • Bank Holiday Sunday on the Canal
    • Trespassing
  • Gary Margolis
    • The Visit
  • Barry Schwabsky
    • Fragment of a Pastoral
    • Now I'm Feeling Blue
    • Arthur: Perdido
  • Laurie Sheck
    • The Deer
    • Love Poem
  • Cedric Whitman
    • Dissonance
  • George Bradley
    • Committed to Memory
    • Escape
    • An Arrangement of Sunlight at Hagia Sophia
  • Don Coles
    • Recluse
  • Joy Gwillim
    • The Ritual
    • It Covers Me
    • I Wept When Horses Bit Me
  • Charles Baxter
    • Two Theories of the Unconscious
    • The Return of the Repressed
  • Aaron Fischer
    • Three Versions
    • Lockjaw
  • Dave Etter
    • Living in the Middle
    • Jane's Blue Jeans
  • James Nolan
    • Mr. Rock
    • The Widow
  • Denis Johnson
    • Nude
    • Surreptitious Kissing
    • The Boarding
    • The Story
Contents
  • Paul Breslin
    • Some Early Returns
    • The Sun Fetcher, by Michael Dennis Browne
    • Queen of Darkness, by Celia Gilbert
    • Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems, by Michael S. Harper
    • Village Journal, by Greg Kuzma
    • The Difference Between Day and Night, by Bin Ramke
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  • Charles Baxter
  • George Bradley
  • Paul Breslin
  • Don Coles
  • Dave Etter
  • Aaron Fischer
  • Joy Gwillim
  • Diana Hendry
  • Denis Johnson
  • Margaret Kent
  • Gary Margolis
  • James Nolan
  • Barry Schwabsky
  • Laurie Sheck
  • Cedric Whitman
  • Evan Zimroth
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