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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1980

November 1980

 
  • John Ciardi
  • Amy Clampitt
  • Tony Connor
  • Robert Dorsett
  • Leslie Fiedler
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Five Poems from the 1920s

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A Motel in Troy, N.Y.

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Ward Three: Faith

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Table of Contents

Five Poems from the 1920s
  • Archibald MacLeish
    • Five Poems from the 1920s
    • Vernissage
    • Birth of Eventually Venus
    • Poem ("Who of us all...")
    • Project for an Aesthetic
    • Poem Dedicated to the Advancement of Aviation ..
  • Josephine Jacobsen
    • A Motel in Troy, N.Y.
    • The Nightwatchman
  • John Ciardi
    • Ward Three: Faith
    • Thursday Also Happens
  • Linda Pastan
    • Helen Bids Farewell to Her Daughter Hermione
    • Hippolyte at Breakfast
  • Leslie A. Fiedler
    • A Prayer before Departure
  • Amy Clampitt
    • Balms
  • Tony Connor
    • Emptying the Fishtank
    • Bringing in the House-Plants
  • David Wagoner
    • PalindromeInside Out
    • Note with the Gift of a Bird's Nest
    • My Physics Teacher
    • My Father's Ghost
    • The Last Laugh
  • May Swenson
    • Saguaros above Tucson
    • Dummy, 51, To Go to Museum Ventriloquist Dead at 75
    • Blood Test
    • A Day Like Rousseau's Dream
Comment
  • Robert Pinsky
    • Dialogue of One
  • Ben Howard
    • Chords and Keys
    • Collected Poems, by F. T. Prince
    • A Familiar Tree, by Jon Stallworthy
    • Selected Poems: 1951-1974 and The Shaft, by Charles Tomlinson
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  • Amy Clampitt
  • Tony Connor
  • Leslie A. Fiedler
  • Ben Howard
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  • May Swenson
  • David Wagoner
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