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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1981

April 1981

 
  • Dick Allen
  • Frederick Bock
  • Stephen Dunn
  • Jim Gauer
  • Anthony Hecht
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A Love for Four Voices: Homage to Franz Joseph Haydn

By Anthony Hecht
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Measuring the Distance

By Jim Gauer
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Over a Stone

By Eleanor Ross Taylor
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Table of Contents

  • Anthony Hecht
    • A Love for Four Voices: Homage to Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Jim Gauer
    • Measuring the Distance
    • This Feeds on the Light
  • Eleanor Ross Taylor
    • Over a Stone
  • Richard Moore
    • The Playground
    • On Coming to Nothing
    • Friends
  • Frederick Bock
    • Stock
  • Dick Allen
    • A Winter Morning
  • William Heyen
    • Ram Time
    • Post Mortem: Literary Criticism
    • Catbird
    • Arrows
  • Pattiann Rogers
    • Discovering Your Subject
    • The Last Blessing
    • Exposing the Future with Conviction
    • The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
  • Stephen Dunn
    • Workers
    • Fairy Tale
    • Elementary Poem
  • John N. Morris
    • Grandfather's Picture
    • The Grand Birthday
    • Boxtrap
    • The Cure
    • A Schedule of Benefits
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  • Peter Stitt
    • West of Your City
    • In Broken Country, by David Wagoner
    • The Triggering Town and Selected Poems, by Richard Hugo
    • [William Stafford]
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Dick Allen
  • Frederick Bock
  • Stephen Dunn
  • Jim Gauer
  • Anthony Hecht
  • William Heyen
  • Richard Moore
  • John N. Morris
  • Pattiann Rogers
  • Peter Stitt
  • Eleanor Ross Taylor
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