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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1980

December 1980

 
  • Christopher Bursk
  • Martha Collins
  • Gary Gildner
  • Conrad Hilberry
  • Edward Hirsch
Table of Contents

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The Fears of the Poor

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Several Things

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Christmas, Mexico

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Table of Contents

  • Vern Rutsala
    • The Fears of the Poor
    • Prospectus for Visitors
    • Skaters
  • Martha Collins
    • Several Things
    • The Story We Know
  • Conrad Hilberry
    • Christmas, Mexico
  • Roger Mitchell
    • Cinderella
  • Edward Hirsch
    • For the Sleepwalkers
  • Caroline Knox
    • Sol Invictus
    • Nancy Drew
    • The Cavendish Club
  • Thomas Lux
    • The Night so Bright a Squirrel Reads
    • After a Few Whiffs of Another World
    • It's the Little Towns I Like
    • His Spine Curved Just Enough
Comment
  • Alan Williamson
    • Dim Human Avenues
    • Ashes: Poems New and Old and Seven Years from Somewhere, by Philip Levine
    • The Woman on the Bridge Over the Chicago River, by Allen Grossman
    • The Everlastings, by Norman Dubie
    • Crossing, by John Matthias
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Martha Collins
  • Conrad Hilberry
  • Edward Hirsch
  • Caroline Knox
  • Thomas Lux
  • Roger Mitchell
  • Vern Rutsala
  • Alan Williamson
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