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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1979

August 1979

 
  • Edward Brash
  • Jane Flanders
  • David Ignatow
  • Judith Kroll
  • Richmond Lattimore
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The Summer Weight of Lemons

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Western Ways

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Point of View

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Table of Contents

From Cracked Obelisk at Aswan
  • Barry Spacks
    • The Summer Weight of Lemons
    • Spanish Traffic
    • The Assimilation
  • Richmond Lattimore
    • Western Ways
    • Sliding Scales
    • Coastal Stuff
  • Richard Shelton
    • Point of View
    • How to Amuse a Stone
    • The Ship in a Bottle
  • 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
  • Mona Van Duyn
    • The Ballad of Blossom
Comment
  • Richard Sieburth
    • He Do the Enemy in Different Voices
CONTRIBUTORS
  • David Ignatow
  • Judith Kroll
  • Richmond Lattimore
  • David McCord
  • Richard Shelton
  • Richard Sieburth
  • Barry Spacks
  • Mona Van Duyn
  • Cynthia Zarin
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