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July 1981

 
  • Michael Blumenthal
  • Turner Cassity
  • Tony Connor
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Irving Feldman
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Six Poems After Balthus

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Old Story

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Ghosts

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Table of Contents

Six Poems after Balthus
  • Stephen Dobyns
    • Six Poems After Balthus
    • The Greedy Child
    • The Guitar Lesson
    • The Street
    • Patience
    • The Cherry Tree
    • The Room
  • Robert Long
    • Old Story
    • Strange Insects
    • In the Red
  • Turner Cassity
    • Ghosts
  • Tony Connor
    • Reminiscences Remembered
  • Michael C. Blumenthal
    • Days We Would Rather Know
  • Marilyn Hacker
    • Gerda in the Eyrie
  • Roger Weingarten
    • The Afterlife
  • Deborah Tall
    • Anima
    • Memorabilia
  • Rebecca Weiner
    • Birds
    • Driving Around
  • Gary Soto
    • Hitchhiking with a Friend and a Book That Explains the Pacific Ocean
    • Walking with Jackie, Sitting with a Dog
    • Her
  • Toney Teague
    • Assault on Second Avenue
    • Woman in White
  • Robert Pack
    • Making Her Will
  • Carole Oles
    • Like Musical Chairs
    • Better Vision
  • Irving Feldman
    • Social Constructions of Reality at Coney Island
Comment
  • J. D. McClatchy
    • Figures in the Landscape
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  • Michael C. Blumenthal
  • Turner Cassity
  • Tony Connor
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Irving Feldman
  • Marilyn Hacker
  • Robert Long
  • J. D. McClatchy
  • Carole Oles
  • Robert Pack
  • Gary Soto
  • Deborah Tall
  • Toney Teague
  • Rebecca Weiner
  • Roger Weingarten
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