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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1980

September 1980

 
  • Jeff Friedman
  • Conrad Hilberry
  • Marie Kaschnitz
  • Philip Levine
  • Pattiann Rogers
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The Myth

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Catchpenny Road

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Nuestra Señora de la Salud

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Table of Contents

  • Philip Levine
    • The Myth
    • One
    • The Radio
    • Having Been Asked "What Is a Man?" I Answer
    • Keep Talking
  • Elizabeth Spires
    • Catchpenny Road
    • Boardwalk
  • Conrad Hilberry
    • Nuestra Señora de la Salud
    • The Expatriate
    • The Moon Seen as a Slice of Pineapple
  • Barry Spacks
    • Judges in Summer
    • The Poetry Bug
  • Pattiann Rogers
    • The Determinations of the Scene
    • Concepts and Their Bodies (The Boy in the Field Alone)
    • Achieving Perspective
  • Jeff Friedman
    • The Record-Breaking Heat Wave
    • The Mannikin
  • Gary Soto
    • Sueño
    • Towards It
Comment
  • Peter Stitt
    • The Ineluctable Signature of Stanley Kunitz
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Jeff Friedman
  • Conrad Hilberry
  • Philip Levine
  • Pattiann Rogers
  • Gary Soto
  • Barry Spacks
  • Elizabeth Spires
  • Peter Stitt
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