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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1979

December 1979

 
  • Philip Burnham
  • Alfred Corn
  • Philip Dacey
  • Marilyn Hacker
  • Charles Hartman
Table of Contents

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Little Did the Junco Know

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A Story from Chekhov

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Crepuscular

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Table of Contents

  • Gerald Stern
    • Little Did the Junco Know
  • William Heyen
    • A Story from Chekhov
    • Mantle
    • The Buffalo
    • Redwings
  • Charles Simic
    • Crepuscular
    • Furniture Mover
    • Green Lampshade
  • Marilyn Hacker
    • The Hang-Glider's Daughter
  • Charles O. Hartman
    • Over a Cup of Tea
    • Two Poems about Grass
  • Philip Burnham
    • Nine Photographs of Descartes
  • Gregory Orr
    • Two Songs of the River
    • Then
    • After the Guest
  • Alfred Corn
    • Cornwall
  • Linda Pastan
    • My Achilles Son
    • After Minor Surgery
    • Dreams
    • Ethics
    • Widow's Walk, Somewhere Inland
  • Philip Dacey
    • Praiseful Mouths
  • Reynolds Price
    • The Annual Heron
Comment
  • Joseph Parisi
    • Ghostwriting
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Philip Burnham
  • Alfred Corn
  • Philip Dacey
  • Marilyn Hacker
  • Charles O. Hartman
  • William Heyen
  • Gregory Orr
  • Joseph Parisi
  • Linda Pastan
  • Reynolds Price
  • Charles Simic
  • Gerald Stern
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