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July 1979

 
  • John Ashbery
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Peter Davison
  • John Drury
  • James Hall
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Train Rising out of the Sea

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The End of the Line

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Table of Contents

  • John Ashbery
    • Train Rising out of the Sea
    • Not Only / But Also
    • Many Wagons Ago
    • The Sun
    • Five Pedantic Pieces
    • Flowering Death
    • Late Echo
  • Elizabeth Spires
    • At the Bambi Motel
  • Alicia Ostriker
    • The End of the Line
    • Anxiety about Dying
    • After the Shipwreck
    • Fisherman
  • James Baker Hall
    • A Thin Strip of Bright Light Falls
    • Whenever He Leaves
    • Her Hand
  • David St. John
    • The Boathouse
    • The Avenues
  • Peter Davison
    • July Meeting
  • Pattiann Rogers
    • A Giant Has Swallowed the Earth for a Pill
    • Synthesising the Word
  • Paul Smyth
    • Poetics
  • Christopher Buckley
    • The Letters of Summer
    • Flowers
  • Peter Laurie
    • On the Death of the Poet
  • Mark Perlberg
    • When at Night
  • John Drury
    • Decoys
  • Gerald Stern
    • I Remember Galileo
    • Potpourri
    • Magritte Dancing
    • Waving Goodbye
Comment
  • Vernon Shetley
    • A Babel of Tongues
    • A Full Heart, by Edward Field
    • Kicking the Leaves, by Donald Hall
    • Room for Error, by Charles Martin
    • Comforting the Wilderness, by Robert Shaw
    • Bad Boats, by Laura Jensen
    • Lateness: A Book of Poems, by David Shapiro
  • Michael Hamburger
    • Music and Meaning
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  • John Ashbery
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Peter Davison
  • John Drury
  • James Baker Hall
  • Michael Hamburger
  • Peter Laurie
  • Alicia Ostriker
  • Mark Perlberg
  • Pattiann Rogers
  • Vernon Shetley
  • Paul Smyth
  • Elizabeth Spires
  • David St. John
  • Gerald Stern
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