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May 1981

 
  • Sandra Alcosser
  • Lee Bartlett
  • Caroline Finkelstein
  • Maria Flook
  • Debra Gorlin
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The Spirit That Speaks

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Artifacts

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The Good Guy

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Table of Contents

  • Baron Wormser
    • The Spirit That Speaks
    • A History of Photography
    • Servants
    • Numerous Questions
    • Bureaucrats Investigated
    • Of Small Towns
  • Helena Minton
    • Artifacts
    • Letter from Shuyak Island, Alaska
    • Bread
  • Kita Shantiris
    • The Good Guy
  • Jim Handlin
    • Akbar's Algebra
    • Remnants
  • David Wojahn
    • Matins
    • Miracles
    • Elegy for James Wright
  • Rennie McQuilkin
    • Hands
    • The Other Woman
  • Caroline Finkelstein
    • Seeing the Light
    • Stories of Houses
  • James McKean
    • Bus Ride, Pie de la Cuesta
  • David Kresh
    • The
  • Jane O. Wayne
    • With Solitude
    • Braiding Your Hair
    • First Freeze
  • Maria Flook
    • Strangers: Many Perfect Examples
    • The Late-Shift Comptroller
  • Lee Bartlett
    • Fishbones
  • Sandra Alcosser
    • Each Bone a Prayer
    • Ruddy Glow against a Black Background
    • The Entomologist's Landscape
Contents
  • William H. Pritchard
    • Weighing the Verse
    • Being There: Poetry 1977-1980, by Robert Penn Warren
    • Selected Poems 1950-1975, by Thom Gunn
    • The Traveler's Tree: New and Selected Poems, by William Jay Smith
    • Collected Poems 1944-1979, by Kingsley Amis
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Sandra Alcosser
  • Lee Bartlett
  • Caroline Finkelstein
  • Maria Flook
  • Jim Handlin
  • David Kresh
  • James McKean
  • Rennie McQuilkin
  • Helena Minton
  • William H. Pritchard
  • Kita Shantiris
  • Jane O. Wayne
  • David Wojahn
  • Baron Wormser
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