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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1979

September 1979

 
  • Kenneth Rosen
  • Philip Appleman
  • Paul Barry
  • William Dickey
  • Richard Eberhart
Table of Contents

From this Issue

Poem

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My Name

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Poem

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On Learning the People's Republic of China Has Lifted Its Ban on Beethoven

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Nostalgie de la Boue

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Table of Contents

  • Philip Levine
    • My Name
    • The First Truth
    • Salt
    • That Day
    • To Cipriano, in the Wind
    • Buying Earth
  • James Reiss
    • On Learning the People's Republic of China Has Lifted Its Ban on Beethoven
  • Philip Appleman
    • Nostalgie de la Boue
  • Alan R. Shapiro
    • Captain Wynne to Randolf Routh
    • The Dublin Evening Mail
    • Randolf Routh to Charles Trevelyan
  • Richard Eberhart
    • Speculative Nature Note
    • Offering to the Body
  • William H. Dickey
    • Aubrey's Brief Lives
Contents
  • Kenneth Rosen
    • Explaining a Poem
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  • Philip Appleman
  • William H. Dickey
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Philip Levine
  • James Reiss
  • Kenneth Rosen
  • Alan R. Shapiro
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