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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1980

October 1980

 
  • Jack Butler
  • Irving Feldman
  • Margaret Gibson
  • Margaret Kent
  • John Maloney
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The Bathers

By Irving Feldman
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Dogwoods

By Edward Wilson
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The Inheritance

By Margaret Gibson
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Table of Contents

  • Irving Feldman
    • The Bathers
    • Progress
  • Edward Wilson
    • Dogwoods
  • Margaret Gibson
    • The Inheritance
  • Sherod Santos
    • After a Long Illness
    • Three Fragments
    • On the Last Day of the World
  • Jack Butler
    • The Mantis
    • Timber Rattler
  • Max Wickert
    • (9."The hero heaves a happy...")
    • (8."That I love you...")
    • (7."O these experimental...")
    • (6."They cry 'Forever!'...")
    • (5."By love possessed?...")
    • (4."No one will hint...")
    • (2."The urgent Cleopatra...")
    • (1."Shakespeare in vain...")
    • From The Pat Sonnets
  • Margaret Kent
    • Last Signals
    • Watching the Island
  • John Owen Maloney
    • For William Carlos Williams
    • Laura-by-the-Sea
    • Loose Ladder
    • Water
    • Raining Towards Aries
  • Katha Pollitt
    • A Poet of Our Climate
    • Sea Grasses
  • William Pitt Root
    • Song ("O/the slender brilliance...")
    • Dancers on an Island with No Roads
    • Half Shift
Comment
  • Paul Breslin
    • Warpless and Woofless Subtleties
    • As We Know and Houseboat Days, by John Ashbery
    • John Ashbery: An Introduction to the Poetry, by David Shapiro
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Paul Breslin
  • Jack Butler
  • Irving Feldman
  • Margaret Gibson
  • Margaret Kent
  • John Owen Maloney
  • Katha Pollitt
  • William Pitt Root
  • Sherod Santos
  • Max Wickert
  • Edward Wilson
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