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August 1981

 
  • Bonnie Billet
  • Robert Bly
  • David Bottoms
  • William Carpenter
  • Paul Engle
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Lifesaving

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On R.L.S. and Happiness

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Night Fishing

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Table of Contents

  • David Wagoner
    • Lifesaving
    • Poem about Breath
    • To a Farmer Who Hung Five Hawks on His Barbed Wire
    • March for a One-Man Band
    • The Old Racoon
    • Big Game
  • Vicki Hearne
    • On R.L.S. and Happiness
    • The Claim of Speech
  • William Carpenter
    • Night Fishing
  • Grace Schulman
    • Flight Commands
  • David Bottoms
    • In the Wilderness Motel
  • Charles O. Hartman
    • Not Oscar Wilde in Duluth
    • Terzanelle
  • James Tate
    • Red Bricks and Camphor Trees
    • It Wasn't Me
    • To Fuzzy
  • Bonnie Billet
    • The Vanishing Species
    • Twelve Moons
  • Ronald Lee Perry
    • The Mirror Walk
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Early Natural History
  • Kathleen Spivack
    • Crystal Night: Berlin 1938
    • He Doesn't Move
  • Robert Bly
    • Herons
    • The Moose
    • A Ramage for the Star Man, Mourning
    • A Ramage for Awakening Sorrow
  • Sherod Santos
    • Waiting for the Storm
    • The Coming of Fall
    • View from the Hotel Lobby
    • The Evening Light along the Sound
    • The Breakdown
  • Paul Engle
    • Images of China
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  • Julian Moynahan
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  • Bonnie Billet
  • Robert Bly
  • David Bottoms
  • William Carpenter
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  • Julian Moynahan
  • Ronald Lee Perry
  • Sherod Santos
  • Grace Schulman
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • Kathleen Spivack
  • James Tate
  • David Wagoner
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