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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1980

January 1980

 
  • J. McClatchy
  • William Pritchard
  • Ernst Pöppel
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Sandra Gilbert
Table of Contents

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Learning a Word while Climbing

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My Grandmother in Paris

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Table of Contents

  • William E. Stafford
    • Learning a Word while Climbing
    • Watching Her Go
    • With Neighbors One Afternoon
    • A Tentative Welcome to Readers
    • Looking across the River
    • Sending These Messages
  • Josephine Jacobsen
    • Border
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • My Grandmother in Paris
  • Bruce Guernsey
    • Back Road
  • Stephen Dobyns
    • Oatmeal Deluxe
    • It's like This
    • Arrested Saturday Night
    • A Place in Maine
    • How Sweet and Proper It Is
  • David Wagoner
    • Under the Sign of Moth
    • Caterpillar Song
    • Spider Song
    • Moth Song
  • William Butler Yeats
    • The Watch-Fire
Comment
  • Ernst Pöppel
    • A Note on "The Watch-Fire"
  • Peter Stitt
    • Summer Birds and Haunch of Winter
    • The Vermont Suicides, by Roger Weingarten
    • Rounding the Horn, by David Slavitt
    • Designing Women, by Pamela White Hadas
    • Riversongs, by Michael Anania
    • The Power To Change Geography, by Diana Hehir
    • Praise, by Robert Hass
    • The Star-Apple Kingdom, by Derek Walcott
Contents
  • William H. Pritchard
    • MacLeish Revisited
  • J. D. McClatchy
    • Setting the Hard Tasks
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Bruce Guernsey
  • Josephine Jacobsen
  • J. D. McClatchy
  • Ernst Pöppel
  • William H. Pritchard
  • William E. Stafford
  • Peter Stitt
  • David Wagoner
  • William Butler Yeats
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