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September 1981

 
  • Wendy Barker
  • T. Broughton
  • Alan Dixon
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Alison Golembiewski
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Purple Asters

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Vivid Season of Decay

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The Gold Pistol

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Table of Contents

  • Robert Morgan
    • Purple Asters
    • Mowing
    • White Autumn
  • Daryl Hine
    • Vivid Season of Decay
  • Alison Golembiewski
    • The Gold Pistol
  • Robert Beverley Ray
    • The Aesthetics of Annotation
  • Roger Shattuck
    • Street Scene
    • Palimpsest
  • Rob Wilson
    • Nothing
    • Ananda Air, III
  • Jack Matthews
    • On the Etiology of Ghosts
    • That Poems Should Be Printed on Recyclable Paper Is Only Right
    • The Instant
    • Woman Sitting
  • Brandon Kershner
    • Dredging
  • Thomas P. Lynch
    • The Old Dilemma
    • A Death
  • Linda Pastan
    • Extremities
    • I Am Learning to Abandon the World
  • Anthony Mortimer
    • Paraclausithyron
    • Grace after Pears
  • Wendy Barker
    • Exorcism of a Nightmare
  • T. Alan Broughton
    • Hazards
    • Landscape with Vanishing Point
  • Alan Dixon
    • Taking Leave
    • What Dignity Is Not
  • William L. Morris
    • Every Poem Is Perfect
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • Pleasures
    • Before
    • Blue Flowers
Comment
  • Mary Kinzie
    • The Judge Is Rue
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Wendy Barker
  • T. Alan Broughton
  • Alan Dixon
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Alison Golembiewski
  • Daryl Hine
  • Brandon Kershner
  • Mary Kinzie
  • Thomas P. Lynch
  • Jack Matthews
  • Robert Morgan
  • William L. Morris
  • Anthony Mortimer
  • Linda Pastan
  • Robert Beverley Ray
  • Roger Shattuck
  • Rob Wilson
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