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August 1979

 
  • Edward Brash
  • Jane Flanders
  • David Ignatow
  • Judith Kroll
  • Richmond Lattimore
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The Archer

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The Summer Weight of Lemons

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Western Ways

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Table of Contents

From Cracked Obelisk at Aswan
  • Lynne Lawner
    • The Archer
  • Barry Spacks
    • The Summer Weight of Lemons
    • Spanish Traffic
    • The Assimilation
  • Richmond Lattimore
    • Western Ways
    • Sliding Scales
    • Coastal Stuff
  • Jane Flanders
    • Wild Asters
  • Robley Wilson Jr.
    • On Not Knowing the Names of the Flowers in Montana
    • The Suspense of Meeting
  • Richard Shelton
    • Point of View
    • How to Amuse a Stone
    • The Ship in a Bottle
  • Jane P. Moreland
    • The Argument
  • David Ignatow
    • Live It Through
    • I Love to Fly
    • The Building
  • Cynthia Zarin
    • Charlottesville, August
  • Judith Kroll
    • Report to the Dead
    • Hotel Metropole
  • David McCord
    • Look Alive
    • One of Two, Three of Four, One of Eight
    • Early Warning
    • Afternoon of a Toad
  • Edward Brash
    • "Les Demoiselles" of Piney Woods
  • Mona Van Duyn
    • The Ballad of Blossom
Comment
  • Richard Sieburth
    • He Do the Enemy in Different Voices
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Edward Brash
  • Jane Flanders
  • David Ignatow
  • Judith Kroll
  • Richmond Lattimore
  • Lynne Lawner
  • David McCord
  • Jane P. Moreland
  • Richard Shelton
  • Richard Sieburth
  • Barry Spacks
  • Mona Van Duyn
  • Robley Wilson Jr.
  • Cynthia Zarin
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