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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1982

January 1982

Erich Heller
Sidney Burris
H. D.
Dave Etter
Irving Feldman

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Poem

From the magazine:
Message from the Sleeper at Hell's Mouth

By Alicia Ostriker

Poem

From the magazine:
Just Another Smack

By Irving Feldman

Poem

From the magazine:
Earth Day in Provincetown

By Erica Funkhouser

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Table of Contents

Alicia Ostriker
- Message from the Sleeper at Hell's Mouth
Irving Feldman
- Just Another Smack
Erica Funkhouser
- Earth Day in Provincetown
Hugh Seidman
- The Ill
Dana Gioia
- My Secret Life
Sidney Burris
- On Living with a Fat Woman in Heaven
Susan Ludvigson
- Some Notes on Courage
Richard Moore
- Poets
James Laughlin
- The Child
H.D.
- Delphi

Comment

Erich Heller
- Gists and Piths: From the Letters of Pound and Williams

CONTRIBUTORS

Sidney Burris
Irving Feldman
Erica Funkhouser
Dana Gioia
H.D.
Erich Heller
James Laughlin
Susan Ludvigson
Richard Moore
Alicia Ostriker
Hugh Seidman

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